Everywhere else you're gonna find it hard to justify the purchase if you're banking on appreciation and not pure cash flow.

So out of pure embarrassment I started to learn what it meant to run a real estate business.These thing are the best things I learned. 1) I'm doing this to improve my life and the lives of others2) These people are my clients not my family or my friends3) If I don't quit loosing money get out and leave it to others.4) This is way too easy to be hard.My first situation was rent collection. driving hours every month to collect rent, sometime 2 and 3 times just to find no one home.

The only thing I could figure might have happened is that the syndicator's purchase of the 70-80% of the units would have been based purely on cap rate, as a commercial deal, and rents seem to have appreciated pretty well at the complex in the last 5 years (25% by one metric) while market forces in general and rates for borrowing capital, in particular, seem to have driven cap rates considerably lower / prices higher, from what I gather (although, I'm not a syndicator currently, on either the GP or LP side, so I really don't know what I'm talking about in this regard).  

This is pure opinion here, and not gospel truth by any means. 

I think (purely my opinion) that older folks (40+) use VRBO and millenials use AIR.....that seems to be the case for us anyway...

Bought for $62K cashRehabbed and paid a crappy PM $37KLow Appraisal at $110kGot about $77k back with the Cash Out RefiRented for $1100/monthJust raised the rent in 2021 to $1185/month$1185 rental income-$598 Mortgage PITI-$118 10% property manager (Self managed now)-$118 10% Cap Ex-$118 10% Maintenance-$94 8% vacancy=$139 Pure Cash Flow per month What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

I feel it's purely a supply/demand issue.

But I'm commission-only, and love the idea of creating a passive stream of income "just in case" and eventually paying off all debt and retiring at a ripe old age with $20,000/month of pure cash flow and 0 mortgages. 

Only big ticket items that are left is the roof- the rest is purely cosmetic.

I've been to hundreds of them at people's homes, at clubs and many of those so-called seminars like the Trump seminars.You work all day at a job, go home to freshen up, drive to a meeting and get there around 6 pm and while your waiting for the meeting to start at 7 pm everyone is screaming pure bullsh... over each other.