It's human nature for me to miss out on things I am not familiar with, so please forgive my ignorance.

I use: Coaches Companies that hire seasonal workers College Housing website Official Parent Group for Colorado Mesa University Craiglist Zillow Avail - posts to 30 sites for free Apartments Roomies Market place Reddit Tenants incentive "Room for rent" Signs - google Voice to hide my actually phone number Your cities Department of Human Services College bill boards rip off advertising

Not sure if you have solidified/chosen a lender yet, but BP has a list of reccomended DSCR lenders that I think would be great for you to check out.

And I didn't even dive into the construction aspect and knowing what works and doesn't work for a chosen submarket. 

I would caution on comparing these returns to the S&P 500.Real estate has been pretty much flat the last 2-3 years while the S&P has been on a great run.It's human nature to sell the lows and buy the tops.

Well....should you invest in a city where the people elected a woman with foreclosures, liens, judgements, garnishments, ethical violations from the state ethics board,  misused a city credit card, went three years arrears on her federal taxes all while yelling for other people to pay "  their fair share, " left skeletonized dead bodies hanging over Canal St for months on end covered only by a tarp until the wind blew it off to reveal to our horror her blatant disrespect for human dignity?

There are still many homebuyers that are not as Tech-Savy or may need human interaction to get help quickly.

There are lots more that require a little bit of human interaction and a few more that need full involvement of a person - answering the phone, some AR and AP.

Appreciate all your feedback.The vast, vast majority of properties in Baltimore city, especially city properties cost more to rehab than they are worth, effectively totaling the properties, it’s great that you want to help fix up Baltimore but you’d be better spent working with habitat for humanity or something as opposed to flipping in Baltimore, especially in the cheapest areas.  

They are humans just like you.