Hi Lina from Texas-Congratulations on your interest in investing in mid-term rentals and you are wondering how and where to get started.I get this question frequently from investors.Sometimes and investor is looking to keep their property cashflow positive as insurance and taxes have squeezed cashflow by turning units into mid-term or short-term rentals.First off, ideally, the property will cashflow as a long-term rental should something disrupt the mid-term rental model.You will also want to have the property be near where there would be a demand for mid-term rentals (hospitals, universities, research centers).Monthly rents for mid-term rentals are about 20% (+/-) higher than unfurnished similar long-term rentals.There are property managers that will manage mid-term rentals for you and I always advise my clients to use property managers to keep their investment as passive as possible and for compliance issues related to Fair Housing Laws and local regulations.To Your Success!

Im even referring their properties to my friends and I look like a fool referring people who then see a scathing post from me.PLEASE remove the post. 

It sounds like a big misunderstanding and I guess the learning lesson is for you to always to get an invoice from anyone doing work.  

I’m looking to network with people that help asset manage multi family apartment complexes.My business partner and I have grown to almost 300 units.

My partner and I keep an excel spreadsheet of rent, our purchases, utilities, taxes, insurance, and money spent on contractors.

Our business model is built around working with investors to find them great returns and I would enjoy a conversation around what you are trying to do.

You might decide that you absolutely want to own your own residence there and I assume you can afford it since you already own properties elsewhere, likely in beautiful Hawaï.

I could pull it up and redo but it's not level to start with and I have good height down there.  

so I used 1.5% as a property tax number, and I used $200 mo for insurance.

I lived there for a couple years and I met this guy who has bought and managed a ton of property there.