But what I will say is that he is a disastrous relationship manager.

@Sean GammonsConsider adding a partner for the second deal to share the down payment and mortgage responsibility, keeping DTI manageable.

What's your biggest time management challenge?

I've built relationships with property managers who have distressed properties in their portfolios that can communicate directly to owners. 

So small update on here, I managed to carve some time to begin to set things up to spring board for a deal in the next 2-3 months.

If this is your only rental, it's more about if you want to keep the property from a management perspective.

Managers will quit or worse.

For STRs, properties near the beach or downtown tend to perform well.Start Small and Smart: If this is your first property, focus on something manageable.

However, after renovations, the numbers improve significantly, and the challenge lies in bridging the gap between current and future performance.Expenses typically run at a 30-50% expense ratio for mobile home parks, depending on management and infrastructure conditions.

Those effected go well beyond the property owners, the economic contribution of RE and subsequent economic loss in the form of: management, maintenance, landscaping, caretaking, hospitality, tourism, contracting, designing, pools and gardening is economically catastrophic and will reverberate well beyond specific zip codes.