Quote from @Brooklyn McCarty: This can also be avoided when you are working in advance to fill months vs trying to slash your rates and fill at the last minute  Seconding this notion.

I find that an idiotic notion, to be blunt about it. 

I honestly a little intimidated by the notion of an LLC and what it involves.

Seconding Ryan's notion that the abundance of hotels could be risky.

@Andrew Brun First off Welcome to BP. 

Then proceeding to tell me how "You should pay someone to do daily maintenance of the pool because they are not going to be everyday pool people"Then a recorded phone call yes I record all my phone calls with not just my tenant but if someone is in my call log with them yelling and claiming that they are not going to be everyday pool people giving notion they simply are not going to upkeep the pool the biggest gripe is a ten second chore dumping the skimmer basket.Now the biggest concern here is the pool pumps not circulating water and running dry then burning up. 

Which would be opposed to renting lets say $1,200/mnth * 12 = $14,400/yr * 30 yrs = $432,000 of money you will never see again.But when I started this thread I was contemplating the notion that the home is a "good investment".

Like @Cory Adams pointed out, many people made the decision to short sale based on the notion that your primary residence is an asset or investment and if it tanks you should dump it like a stock...

Real estate investors tend to operate with a notion of adding value to their properties and the communities in which they exist. 

All they have is the notion that prices have gone up a lot in the last years, and everyone remembers that for past decades no house on the street sold for over 50k - that will work against them.