There are a few bad apples that sneak in, but the vast majority of members are interested in growing together!

Level of effort and stress - you have to compare apples to apples in terms of the personal bandwidth each investment is going to take up.

They are near impossible to compare apples-to-apples.Beyond the fees, my borrower profile is going to be different than yours.

I'm considering getting out of the Mid-Term Rental Game.I purchased 30 apartments (two 10 units, a 6-unit, and a 4-unit) for the purpose of running them as Mid-Term rentals.Currently, half of them are being run as MTRs while the remaining are still LTRs.My MTRs average $1,600/month while the LTR rate $900/month.Now that I have some data, I wanted to compare apples to apples for MTR vs LTR revenue.After adjusting for the increase in Insurance, my VA for communicating managing, and supplies/increased repairs it's looking closer to $1,200 for MTR compared to LTRs $900.It's a lot of extra headaches for $300 more per month.I'm also having trouble refinancing these properties because banks hate seeing anything but LTR.

Again, the two situations may not be apples to apples, I'm just going off of the info you provided. 

Because while each serves food for profit, each is wildly different business from the next, they are not comparing apples too apples.     

My income level is under 50,000I have plans to buy Apple stock with the money.

You have to make sure you're comparing apples to apples.

But the reality is that you'll occasionally come across bad apples, despite them looking good on paper. 

I think you're mixing apples and watermelons.