Hi Michael,From reading your post it seems that your project needs a heavy infusion of incentives to make it feasible. 

We did some paint, carpet and light fixtures - and let the market appreciation do the heavy lifting. 

We have a Chicago general contracting business, and handling the field operations is a ridiculously heavy lift.As far as finding customers I think you'll have some good success with gorillia marking at some of the local investor meetups. 

I did it myself for a number of years - good rents for sure but never easy.We have found if you buy in the right areas you can have really high-quality people renting by the room though (our average credit score was >700 for a long time).Do think short-term rentals are equally (or more) challenging in my experience.Regardless of the model, I think it's a great call to offload the thinking and stress by partnering with an operator who does the heavy lifting. 

I have a cash flow heavy, modest appreciation strategy.

@Bret Hudson: I've been a heavy user of both websites you mention and I find your comment interesting.

Selling half your stock portfolio does not relate to 99% of the people on here that don't have the ability to tap into equities or divest from another source to create the vehicle needed to invest.

Regardless if it was for tall grass, unlicensed vehicles, leaving the trash out too long, malicious animals, failure to keep snow removed from path to mailbox etc. 

You’re pulling money from a long-term compounding vehicle to fund a potentially higher-risk asset.

I recommend a few things:  define what you want to achieve and why investing in the US is the vehicle to achieving that ROI.