I must have been on a diff planet.....

I currently rent the SFR via management company, to a long term tenant who is on a fixed income and can't help but wonder if the grass is greener in the vacation rental space.

Account Closed  Dominate your local market  grass is not always greener if your getting 18% net returns why go anywhere else.. to get those returns in others markets will put you squarly in the HOOD

The grass isn't always greener.  

Here are few quick thoughts. 1) I'd sell the student rentals to avoid over saturation and too much competition. 2) Make sure that exchanging your other properties is not simply because of grass is greener thinking. 3) Diversify!

The grass can be greener on the other side....I source and buy deals with at 30% cap (no BS) and sell them to over seas investors for 15%@ Brian McArthurI own multi-family in the northeast also, pm and i'll see if i can help.

I could work with the most trusted, loyal turnkey provider with the best customer service on the planet, but if the property I get from them isn't up to par, then what I thought of the turnkey provider is completely negated.

I doubt such an issue would wait 36 to 48 hours until you can arrange travel back from the other side of the planet to deal with it.It may be that there are a lot of bad PMs out there.

The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence, it is just a different shade of green, and a newbie should be very careful smoking what others have rolled for them without experience or detailed knowledge of the field from which it came.

It can be competitive and risky.If you are looking to get into real estate investing in general, you may want to look at solidifying your financial foundation, and one of the most popular personalities on the planet for that purpose is in your state: Dave Ramsey.