Properties in good areas, whether SFH or MFH, tend to attract more stable, responsible tenants who maintain the property better.

With the new/larger Valley Hospital in Paramus and several travel nurse postings around there, it seems like that may attract some potential renters to the area (at least from a healthcare perspective). 

You can make loans out of your SIDRA with interest rates and terms more attractive than typical private or hard money.

They look like urine stains, not attractive.

We would be so grateful for any input, experience, or recommendations from homeowners or agents regarding what would be the preferred choice for 1) attracting rental guests in the short term, 2) retaining value for resale and not looking dated in 10 years, 3) protecting ourselves from accidents.  

For attractive terms, lenders would like to see a minimum of 1.00 DSCR (Rents fully cover the total mortgage payment)3.

It's a perfect example of how the most attractive applicant can be the worst choice.

Check out these graphics.

Having a pre-approval or at least an established relationship with a lender shows sellers that you're serious and can close quickly, which can make your offer more attractive.

As long you clearly identify and track the expense per property (and you can do that in Quicken, with properties, categories and subcategories, or in Quickbooks), you’ll not need CCs and accounts per properties.Here are some graphical diagrams to help you on this quest (or confuse you further): - Asset Protection Decision Diagram - to help assess the need for asset protection, and what to implement: https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-decision-diagram - Asset Protection Onion Diagram - what, when, and at what cost one should implement in terms of asset protection - https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-onion-diagram-v2 - What is needed for complete asset protection OR the domains that need to be intersected to find asset protection