With saturation hitting the market, creativity is imperative for MTR units.

Of course, this would be while working with a knowledgeable investor agent.I'm just concerned that possibly due to Columbus' popularity on BiggerPockets and elsewhere, the market may have been saturated with investors, turn key providers. 

With a saturated market it will also take longer than normal to rent.

Though I would say its a very saturated market nowadays I would consider something like as service based business if your goal is to get started with large cashflow 

The tenant's mention of a lawsuit is typically an empty threat.As someone that's dealt with plenty of mold and mold claims, this one looks like a fat nothing burger.

Very rarely, those cases happen due to some fat tails event-- recession, war, pandemic, etc.

Audit expenses and cut the fat.

I don't know about you, but that seems ridiculous and extremely dangerous to me. you can definetly learn it in less time than it takes to make 20k its a fat waste of money and an mlm

If your properties under management are generating steady income for you close to or even exceeding your initial expectation, yet you scan the work orders and find more fat that can be trimmed which would yield even more profit.

Too many people jumped in to the STR market when it was near its peak in 2021-2022 causing many places to be saturated.