It's got a lower entry point, and the cash flow tends to be pretty sweet.

If you get into the sweet spot being $600-800k you could net $2k per month.

This puts you in the 'sweet spot' in my opinion!

You follow the rules for your state about a note on the door or whatever is legal where you are and you do it.Marie: I sense that you are a sweet, kind person. 

Without doing a deep dive we see an opportunity to get a brand new home for a sweet deal and have some equity on top of that if it goes smoothly.

That's the sweet spot for most individual investors, money-wise.

Here's the deets:I've owned it for 5 years.Bought it for $725, but it's worth about $1.2 or more now.It's not a vacation area, so not interested in STR, but could be okay for MTR, although not super close to hospitals.Mostly I'm hesitant to sell because I have a sweet mortgage rate (2.5%), I owe less than $500K on it, and I'm not planning to buy again soon. 

You match them up in their top condition to see which one really is better.If you are going to make a fair comparison between a marketing company and someone doing it in-house,  don't compare a marketing company with sweet old 56 year old Margaret that has a family of 5 with no time to really give it them all.

While we do appreciate the steady income from mid-term guests (which is a real plus in these economic times), we're trying to strike a sweet spot between our short-term and mid-term rental approaches. 

When I found this property, it ended up being in the sweet spot.