And you get a bustling up and coming city with lots of sports, bars, and things to do and see. 

Purchase price: $280,000 Cash invested: $116,000 Single family home, 2 bed, 2 bath on all sports lake.

Big convention and sports town if you want to get into short term rentals. 

Picking on CA hockey this year doesn't even seem like sport though...

It's like walking into a room and asking, "How do I play sports?"

That would be like a use car dealer saying that because he makes more money selling used sedans, his personal truck was a bad buy...or a field sports retailer saying that buying ice sport equipment retail is a bad buy...you can't ever hope to only buy everything with an investment or resale mentality...that would make you entire life a job. 

When you start investing other people's money it gets real in a hurry and you feel the weight of the world,  However, it feels so invigorating and just like I am participating on any of the many sports championships and excellent teams I have played on to win many championships.Swanny

All of them have said 75%+ occupancy.But between MTSU, weddings, sporting events (multiple youth soccer tournaments is what I know the best, but I know basketball and baseball also have pretty big tournaments here), corporate rentals, etc,  I could see it 

If you walked up to Michael Jordan and said, "I want to be learn sports" he would walk away.

To echo what Bruce has mentioned, multifamily is a team sport and the key here is to have a team that you can rely on and trust.