If the complainer can't smell it in their apartment, but, are uptight enough to be bothered by the passing smell in the hallway...it may not be the smoker that has the problem.I have found that complainers/boat rockers are often wound a bit to tight, and that when you are a highly responsive empathetic landlord, they turn you in to their own personal karma delivery machine, to right all the wrongs that previously fallen on deaf ears.Good luck.

Answering your phone calls while watching the games does not turn your living room into a home office.14-day free rent aka Augusta rule loophole.

@Cynthia Lee Depends on your jurisdiction, your relationship with the tenants, and your end game plan.

We're probably not going to take the risk if we're busy agents to play that game. 

@John Mucilli I am NOT a fan of deal machine.

RE is a long term game. 

My strategy is the long game, buy and hold, build equity and cash flow down the road.

Many sellers will not accept this since they are in second position, and it is very risky since if you default (higher probability for investors with no money and/or no skin in the game), they will most likely be wiped out during a foreclosure.

I would guess that you have little or no experience running any kind of STR, and now want to get that experience on the back of someone else's investment, with little or no personal skin in the game, and that's not a good way to build an investment portfolio.

If I could rewind 7 years, I would’ve personally scooped up another property near downtown...prices were more forgiving back then.All that said, I’m curious..if you were getting back in the game today, would a condo with strong amenities but an unpredictable HOA top your list, or are you eyeing single-families for that full control?