The Lonnie Dealer system in most successful in one, two, and three star communities.

OR...You sell, pay the taxes, thank your lucky stars that you got out of a house that could've put you in the hole like most americans.

Note how the stars NEVER end up doing well:) but that doesn't stop others from playing the same old games! 

Making sure place is cleaned, keeping visitor experience at 10 stars so they come back, getting the visitors in the first place, making sure everything is safe, neighbors are happy, county is happy(depending on vacation rental rules)  (thats an important side note. 

Stocks is a whole different ball of wax but I'd suggest you start to read Morning Star, Mootly Fool and Euroinvestor on a regular basis (I probably can't list the URLs here but just do google searches on them).  

@Charles Ma to get buy and hold to work out in SF you need to pretty much need to line up some stars.

If you know of a rock star real estate agent or broker who can help us in our search, feel free to recommend them to us. 

If you get deep into the settings on Zillow there is a way to see the "pricing accuracy" for certain areas, I believe San Antonio is rated 1 or 2 stars out of 5 stars, but that may have changed since I last checked.

@Rosston Smith I did look it up on Amazon and while reviews are generally great the one star review has me a tad on the skeptical side.

So this current development is a good genre problem in my view--how exactly to wind up the tenancy--with tenants willing to move;  a bad problem being having to evict 10 people)......I would thank my lucky stars they want to leave and do a mutual termination of the lease (deposit return contingent on the cleanliness and condition at move out).In fact, even if this amicable separation does not work out, I would not be renewing based on these facts.