One reason we invested in Capstone area was that the guys at Priority One told me that there is always a waitlist for tenants...very popular place to rent.

Going the FHA route is popular with the lower down payment needed, but also consider the occupancy requirement of having to live in the property for one year, and the inspection requirements being more stringent with an FHA loan.

@Jonathan Bowen I think it comes more from the popular way of saying a shortcut or easier way to do things ie.

We have a popular buy/sell/trade website for our county and city that is a popular place for posting rental vacancies.

As Austin continues to grow at this rapid rate, the market on the Nothern Belt is becoming more and more popular. 

Real estate is the most popular self-directed IRA investment.

On the surface, this may not be as popular as the high turnover would call for prompter housekeeping and cleaning, but none the less, was an interesting concept.

Account Closed I would say as a beginning note investor that your question on returns is not an easy one to answer and the note industry is not like more popular real estate arenas like buy and hold or flipping where there's more literature and information to find out about it.

Initially I was leaning towards turnkey, especially after seeing so many videos and listening to podcasts by a certain TK provider who I’m starting to notice isn’t too popular on these forums... but I’m also reading comments by people who have ventured out “on their own” and it’s starting to seem less impossible to do it that way.

BUT...it might be that you have that really nice 2 1/2" bead board that was popular from 1880 up until Great Depression.