I am in no way affiliated, but I attribute most of our success to AirDNA.co (not .com, it’s .co) This is a data scraping company that gives back-end data on AirBnB, Booking, and Home Away.

Personally my occupancy increased this year, but I attribute that to a good PM (I made a switch in Feb). 

Haven't got prodio so this comment is pure computer science.We normally create an object (aka contact/client/customer/user, call it whatever you please),and then assert (define) each object HAS A attribute, like first_name, last_name, phone, address, ....There's lots of places a contact can be used and it's a nightmare to have this data segregated into different places according to use (say buyer vs seller). 

All things which can positively or negatively affect your return.Lastly, have you spoken with a realtor in the area about which attributes are most in-demand in this neighborhood? 

We're adding a jumbo investor coming online in a few weeks that'll allegedly do SFR rates for 3-4 units if you don't need to use rental income to qualify, but I haven't seen the rate sheet yet so am skeptical.From a risk perspective, using rental income to offset PITI implicitly means more risk because those tenants aren't likely to consistently have your 740+ FICO score or all of those other attributes that would have earned you a competitive interest rate on an SFR.

Of course, we can also elect to deduct some of these costs as start-up costs if they aren't necessarily attributable to one property.

Those two attributes are area agnostic.I hate to say "it doesn't matter" but how the investor handles owning the property is more important to your returns than the geographic location where your property is located.

We learn as we go about what attributes we do and don't want and keep adjusting.  

It is defendable and gives us the ability to spend the most time on and choose the most qualified tenant.We continue to verify the info and score more attributes, leading to a final score that forces out a "disqualify, offer unit, or holding pattern" decision for each application.

On what other basis do you suspect or attribute malicious intent on the contractor's part?