So if your use is sporadic, renting may still be the better option.Several different factors play a role in this situation. 

The sad truth is most in the BP community believe the horrible deal with favorable seller financing where zero out of pocket is required is a better real estate play than the great deal that requires traditional financing.

Having  leased my properties all three ways my experience has been that MTR are less labor, time and management intensive than STR but more labor, time and management intensive than LTR.  

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $212,000

Cash invested: $67,000

Great starter investment home.
70% ROI

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I'd recommend reaching out to Jordan Wildman with EXP who's a local real estate agent and investor in the Fort Wayne to get started in the market.Fort Wayne offers a number of different investment options from older multi-families (more labor intensive) to new construction build to rent.

As long as you are willing to play the long game you don't really have a reason to be overly nice or flexible with this tenant.

Hard stop.I agree that Hubspot is the easiest to use and it's free so well worth the no cost to play with that with under 1,000 leads.RESimpli is something you could upgrade to as you get moving.

(I find BP to be the most helpful community on the internet)Cross border investing has immense upside financially and on the tax side as wellTo answer your question, the way your entity is structured plays a pivotal role, especially in the upcoming tax year. 

I actually have been friends with Joel for about 20 years now, we started out playing softball together in Chicago for about 10 years and we ended up working some real estate deals together as I was a realtor at the time. 

We bought Ocean Walk Shoppes out of bankruptcy cash, no lender wanted to to play here cost efficiently, about three years ago.