@Elise Bickel Tauber Would be a great person to connect with!

If your tenant starts a kitchen fire and the insurance provider finds out it was a rental, they will deny your claim.Landlord insurance still covers the property, but won't cover your personal belongings since you live elsewhere.

Dumb Debt also means that the owner takes on recourse debt and personally guarantees it instead of non-recourse debt or other people’s debt (OPD) or cross collateralizes it with highly appreciated assets with low debt to value ratios.

I personally have not experienced any government change that has ruined a deal for me.But fear not!

Some areas are higher end for personal use while others are primarily for short term rentals.

Admittedly, they seem a bit sketchy,My question would be, for a person such as my self, how does one go about vetting these syndicates?  

I think a big catalyst this year across all areas of real estate will be the unemployment rate and personal income growth within the Kansas City metropolitan areas and surrounding cities.

Management fees are steep, you're competing w/ bigger operators as well as mom & pop places - it's hard to get the personalized care needed, in my opinion, to be successful. 

Like Jonathan said, in-person meetings with other investors is the best place.

The setup felt like a personal connection all in pursuit of getting your business.  90% of it was done by AI and the other 10% came when a live rep was available.