The conversation was that you wanted us to jump through hoops and prove who we were and my people aren’t trained for this.

That being said I have seen a large number of "professional" property managers that dont do their jobs well resulting in... below-market rents, bad renters, and bad leases that aren't enforced well.

This is an excellent place to get started in CHS if you aren't already attending. 

I mean you could make offers and if you are in the market and they aren't you can always file complaints, (only legit ones) with the city, to keep it on their radar and make it a squeeky wheel for the current owner, but yeah i'm not really a fan of bailing out people in any industry who make mistakes, so by all means by the properties but not your or anyone else's problem that they made the errors they did.  

The author shares a wild story about discovering his long-term tenant was secretly running an Airbnb out of his apartment.

There also aren't caps on rent increases.

Today’s prices aren’t exactly investor-friendly, and typical returns hover around 6-8%.

The yields of the past aren't happening today especially paired with Cleveland increasing taxes on average 50% during this latest cycle. 

But new data is saying something very, very different.Taylor Marr, Senior Housing Economist at Airbnb, chatted about how Airbnbs affect the economy, affordability, and housing supply. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1008 The authors perspective is guilded, as are everyone's.

It’s just another appraisal to make sure you aren’t “cooking the books”.