We have many local investors that really work hard to take care of their properties and there are also some OOS investors who take this approach, but as they say: a few rotten apples spoil the bushel.   

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.

It is pure logic and common sense honestly, I promise you.So..I do not do any online ads or marketing for my real estate investing company.Tell me gurlfriend.. what do you do when you want to bake an apple pie?

Unfortunately my municipal apples may be oranges to yours, I’ve navigated major urban municipal departments which simply might not match up to your local bureaucracy, but here’s my 2 penny opinion.- I stand by a pretty universal Bldg dept practice- a permit never gets released if zoning forbids it.

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

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

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

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.

So instead of the apples to apples number being $565,000, we add in the $550,000 of equity that she already has by owning the house outright.