Outside of real estate, I enjoy Working out, training my German shepherd, and traveling with my family.

Common deductible expenses include mortgage interest, property management fees, repairs, and even travel expenses related to property management.

There is a remedy for that but it is not cheap. 

On the other hand I don’t want to be cheap and losing money in the long run bc I’m not properly fixing things.

Send a Lease Violation Notice immediately - by mail with proof of delivery required (cheap date through post office) and or affix the notice in a envelope with his name on it on the door of the unit. 

Once you have some leads coming in, you'll start to see patterns in what kind of traveler is looking for your place(s).

If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.

Neither are cheap but I feel they both are probably are going to be the best solution for me.

I accept the need for a competent PM and the reality that competence typically ain't cheap.

A few people travel from Daytona just to come to the meetings.