My fiance and I are currently looking for a STR in Blue Ridge, GA. 

The duplexes will be in B-class mix of blue-collar and white-collar neighborhoods with good rental demand and during times of a recession they should hopefully hold their rental price & demand.How does the plan sound?

I want to caution everyone against investing with Techvestor (techvestor.com) or related companies Scoutpads, Metallic Blue Development (MBD) and Superhost Labs.

It is a much more Blue Collar area and the duplexes acquired by the investors that I have worked with, are doing well.  

Facebook and Twitter both use blue logos but this doesn't mean one "stole" it from the other.

I've been a blue collar all my life so don't get me wrong.

We still own the condo, we just have tenants in there who are willing to pay the HOA fee and the increased taxes in order to access the slightly better school system up there.Bottom line, someone who just shows up alone and out of the blue, says they make 3x your rent, offer you nothing else when you explain the income verification problem, and object to a month-to-month rental contract or an increased security deposit, well, they're probably lying about how much money they make.

What's the stable blue collar job?

Your goal is to create an income producing portfolio so that you can retire from your blue collar job in 10 years.

I know on the debt side of these offerings it was/is hard to compete with the Blue sky IRR that is posted by MF or other syndicators promoting 20 to 40% IRRs ..