Cynical and morally I have real problem with investors angling to profit from destruction of families and society.  

Far better than anything you could have done in a stock fund or just about any other real estate investment.As someone who once had 83 sfh rentals in middle class american towns here in illinois, these str's here are without a doubt far better investments.

Chris Lewis American Modern. 

We live in a fast pace MOBILE society today that ever before.  

I ran the spreadsheet that @Scott Trench has on the article "Millions of Americans Should Keep Their Homes as Rentals, Not Sell.

Scott Trench's new article   Millions of Americans Should Keep Their Homes as Rentals, Not Sell.

Like many of my fellow Canadians and many Americans, when I think beach holiday, I think Mexico.

Unfortunately, as my search for the perfect property began the same people who had rented RV’s and stormed into the wilds of American were also now on the search for a second property.

Hi @Patrick Finlay - you can speak with Tanya McBride in the Kapolei office of First American Title.

Not before.. google Ingrid Robinson and American Greed  episode on Remington financial its a good one for how the advance fee scammers work..