I didn't have the thought or foresight to expect massive capital investments to make the place nice.

Detroit, Tigers, Lions, Pistons, Red Wings, massive Cobo Hall, world famous coney dogs, etc...

The city is going through massive revitalization, prices have doubled in the last 5 years but are still quite cheap, and Detroit experienced its first uptick in population in almost 70 years.I was just in SF last weekend and met a couple of clients.

Welcome to the BP Forums @Adam Fiscal Thank you for your service to our country and for sharing your story!

My clients had massive run up in values and then tier of the 3 ts and decide to take some chips off the table and of course there is tax liability but once you get past that 8 to 14% returns consistently with a great broker is a pretty passive to fully passive investment making you some nice money..

So it all comes down to building a MASSIVE organization for this space. 

We get to go through peoples situations and find every possible write off / tax savings possible and massively lower their tax bill in many cases 

Build up a massive portfolio like @John Underwood said.

What is not being talked about is the massive influx of agents into the business.  

Given how many gurus are marketing and pushing consumers to get into Airbnb arbitrage it has created a massive amount of saturation across many markets.