I recommend doing a deep dive in the STR rabbit hole and seeing if not just the numbers make sense, but also the time it will take up for you or your STR manager.

Ease of management?

A great way to get started if you currently have a W2 job is to buy a house hack like a duplex or a fourplex where you can move into one of the units and continue to rent/manage the other units.

With a few tweaks to the management structure, and with new leadership, I figure we can greatly increase the revenue.

I am currently an Asset Manager for Multifamily Deals as my W-2 job and looking to buying my first deal in College Station/Bryan Area.Anyone I can connect with to pick their brain on different investing strategies? 

@Alba Cheung,your property manager should have already handled this and you should not be involved.

Spend a little more money than you might have been planning to, buy in a better area (i.e. not a “turn key” 100k house off the mls), and self manage.

@Chris Seveney We don't plan to make money by managing the fund.

My partner and I have a couple units we manage as well in Washington DC.

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