The 10 year perspective is helpful. :) Surprisingly, the HOA has no lease minimums, my real estate lawyer confirmed when I bought there is nothing limiting me from renting it on Airbnb (which was her suggestion lol).

I am a COO of a $15mm construction company(during the day) as well as own/manage 20 houses and 2 strs mixed in that we also own and manage. .... your post was great and it is awesome to see the different perspectives, thanks for doing that!

Luxely is geared toward social media content and strategy, mostly from an RE professional (realtor, mlo, etc) perspective.

For perspective, we are earning a return of over 20% on our portfolio of properties purchased 3 to 5 years ago.  

From my perspective if the property is empty they are not going to be rewarded for that they should work to find and keep good tenants. 

I'm going to be a bit brutally honest here, but from a client's perspective, they don't want to work with an agent who needs the money because it's an obvious conflict with their interests, and they can easily work with someone who has actually purchased before vs someone who hasn't.  

Thanks for sharing your perspective!

It's important to have the advice and perspective of an industry old-timer, in my opinion. 

Plus, those days we had a few gurus that actually were well worth the money they charged and did provide usable, and valuable information, insight, and perspective.  

This will give you a whole different perspective.