If a personal injury occurs for whatever reason, you (the property manager) are almost always the first target, in place of the owner.

Here’s our OPINION for the Metro Detroit market (use as a template for your target area!)

Target areas with companies aggressively hiring college graduates, your rental pool will improve.

The plan: I am identifying on/off market properties that are targets, will do all of the real estate work (listing, showing, advertising, vetting, etc) and will split the cost of the purchase of the home and the material costs for any needed repairs.The contractor will be subbing out portions of the job and be on site mostly full time until the project is completed. 

I was thinking of doing both but leaning more toward mid-term rental targeting traveling nurses and professionals.

@Zackarias Aitchison as @Theo Hicks mentioned you will want to add value to a syndicator wether that's money, etc.Let's assume you want to go the FREE route.As mentioned before, you'll want to target a syndicator who's actively doing deals and then add value.Value Add Ideas:1.

I am targeting properties with two or more units and ideally a garage when I look for rentals, and there are many of these within the city that will cashflow.

Here’s our OPINION for the Metro Detroit market (use as a template for your target area!)

Our fund offers an 8% pref and is targeting 10-12% overall annual returns.

I have been searching every property in neighborhoods that I am targeting in Harris County.