Also, this is a terrible reason to partner with someone out of desperation instead of to take advantage of opportunities. 6.

We've never met more than 60% of our clients in person, and few have ever come to see their properties.In my opinion, you're better off researching potential cities online and interviewing potential investment teams via Zoom than traveling to the city.This is the perfect example if you sit on the internet how you can and will lose out on massive opportunities, " Never invest in these cities, " TERRIBLE advice from the internetI can only speak about these cities from personal experience, ALL HAVE BOOMED, and have provided massive % returns over the last 10 years, West Palm Beach, I can't believe this is actually on this list, makes zero sense, MASSIVE returns over 10 years,Columbia SC, Booming!!  

I offered to help you however you mentioned you self-manage, (terrible idea) and " have a rolodex of handymen" Well why are your handymen not being your local agent? 

If you read Brandon Turners most recent post, he recommends not buying in terrible areas. 

It really depends on the scenario.If someone is in deep waters, BK, foreclosure, terrible credit, etc.You don't want to be above 60% LTV as that borrower has an incredible risk of default.

I have already sold one because it was such a terrible investment but I got out of it quickly and didn't lose much money.

Airbnb as usual is doing terrible. 

At the end of the day you can switch PM if you have a terrible experience.

But, if they don't have some sort of formal training/experience within the industry hiring them is a terrible idea (from what I've heard).Just to put this into perspective, all of our bookkeepers are U.S.

What a terrible idea.