That should abate in the next 12-18 months, and as new units stop hitting the market at their current pace, Phoenix may see solid growth, especially as the market seems to have solid inbound demand fundamentals, good jobs, tech presence, etc.

Real estate offers tangible assets that can appreciate and cash flow, but your IT business could also have growth potential, especially if you find the right help.Considering a Hybrid Approach:Since you’ve got strong systems in place for your online store and rentals, perhaps a hybrid approach might work—slowly transitioning more time into real estate while maintaining a steady presence in your IT business.

You can help with stuff like researching the market, handling social media, or even just being a local presence for out-of-state investors.

Homes don’t appreciate as quickly, but the military presence here is huge and creates rather unique opportunities.

You can set to only record motion, the presence of a car, the presence of people or record constantly. 

To add: you have a historically strong and consistent tourism presence, limited land/STR allowable areas, highly liquid property compared to selling a cabin in the woods, all 9 classes of visitors in the STR sector, and appreciation.  

There is also termite presence potentially since treatment was done and other issues that I am thinking will be around 8-10k. 

Large SM presence that is positive.

- vandalism- unstable economy - and many other problems of an impoverished countryI'm sure once you have a good team (broker, agent, lawyer, insurance broker, contractor, prop.mgr) that you can trust, it's all doable, but building that might take time and money and physical presence.

It is not difficult to debug the future from their investments using their own website.most STR/LTR syndication that had strong presence should be :- working in local niche market only- has five to ten years experience- had open book / track record mentality- the audited financial statement should be available to understand the business.STR market itself is very risky investment in my opinion, now you add fund/syndication then you have double big problem.one out of five hotel syndication is going for bankruptcy in the last two years , and we expect STR to survive ?