Also, for the new move, if you don't know the city very well, I generally bias towards renting, at least for a few months.

Maybe but for now I think the lessons we are learning and what we want to focus on have taught us well. 

If you self manage short-term rentals it's well within reach. 

Sounds worth it for the programs to use for my own deals but not sure if it works as well as it says.

I have a few friends who is very pro Ohio (Akron and Columbus specifically), but i ventured elsewhere.

If they are wrong, well, you can buy that deal from them (or their lender after they foreclose) a year or two or three from now for less than they paid...By the way, there is nothing wrong with buying a single family home or duplex--my first deal was a mobile home. 

But since i rarely held more than a year all the others got paid off quickly so I did not have to do all the hidden tricks to try to fool the bank or well not fool the bank or servicer but make it harder for them to figure out I was now the owner. 

This is a group of MTR investors who have small to medium portfolios, but we welcome new investors who are just starting out as well.

I have an STR in Niagara Falls and it does pretty well based on the purchase price. 

We have had duplexes with shared water, sewer, and trash billing, as well as shared driveways.The long term tenants act more like owner occupants, planting flowers, etc. and in some cases neighbors think that they are the owners.