Was doing some drive byes on a few properties this morning and stopped in on an open house.

If you don't see evidence of mold but the tenant insists, offer to hire a mold specialist to test the home.

Nothing mind blowing here...If a tenant sends me a video of a burst water line the last thing I do is waste time getting in my car and driving over there.I'd immediately walk the tenant through shutting the water off.I don't know if you were trying to dig at me for talking down about $80k properties.

Your pitch doesn’t pass the smell test.  

Basic services like garbage collection don’t qualify.Material participation: Owners must pass one of the seven material participation tests, such as:You spend more than 500 hours working in your short-term rental business.You carry out all the necessary tasks to run the business yourself.You work more than 100 hours in the business, and no one else contributes more time than you do (this is often considered the best and easiest test to meet).

Now its 1-2 but there is population growth so that drives demand.

These resources provide you with step-by-step instructions and tested strategies that have worked for others.

Look at population growth, job opportunities, and other economic factors that will drive rental demand.

You are going to want to keep a PM in place for any property that is more than a 2 hr drive from you.

We plan on being  long distance owners/mgrs and can't imagine findng & hiring someone to rent a truck, drive around and grab furniture on a onesy/twosy basis, particularly within a reasonable timeframe to not delay launch.