STR....I can only imagine the groups of individuals who will rent this house on a short term basis.

The size of the house is 3500 sqft, single story, and only a 4/3, and rather small at that BR/BA count for the neighborhood. 

Agreed, I think these articles are primarily made as clickbait and designed to give homebuyers false hope of an impending housing crash.

Stay away, I made the mistake of buying one house through them in Palm Bay which has had continual problems.

The only reason conventional will not allow it at all is if you do not have a current housing expense. 

You even have the ability to send your tenant's leases via e-signature and their monthly rent receipts electronically.In addition, you can house all of your management contact information within the program -- such as lawyers, contractors and handyman.

The ONLY upside I saw in it was it let me schedule my own showings for listed houses.  

This usually involves putting down 20% down payment on 150K-170K houses.

I have found people willing to owner finance their house to me at a lower interest rate.

DLP Housing fund and DLP Building communities fund = They are suppose to be really tax efficient but I am considering using the solo 401k as an investment vehicle.