We're a couple big manly men so we go upstairs and there's a couple bedrooms and a small bathroom, but it is crazy cold up here, like ten degrees colder than it is outside at least.

Among U.S. cities, counties or metro areas for which regular data is available, Maricopa County holds one of the highest eviction rates, at 16 filings per 100 renter households during the past year, according to Eviction Lab, a research group at Princeton University that tracks evictions in 35 U.S. cities and 10 states.

Home to The Ohio State University with nearly 60,000 students, 5 Fortune 500 companies, over +25% population change since 2000, and the 2016 smart city challenge award winner (https://www.columbus.gov/smartcity/).

It obviously turned out to be the wrong time for an investment of such a degree.

When I allowed HH properties at my company, we screened people to the degree we could (credit, background, income, rental history), but you still end up with some percentage of "crazies" who can derail the entire property and force out your other tenants.  

In terms of strong markets, I tend to look at major industries in an area (hospitals, universities, military, etc.) because I want a large tenant pool.

If I was master of the universe, I would require every opinion to be accompanied with examples of where the person actually executed that opinion in real life, with their own money. 

It only stands to reason that more and more investors jumped into the STR pool in the most popular tourist destination in the world - vacation rentals near Disney and Universal theme parks. 

You are ahead of the curve to some degree compared to others, but most moving into this space now lose.

My degree is aerospace engineering so Hunstville, AL has been very interesting to me as well for not only work but also real estate but while I might not be tied down to where I live now its also not as simple as just packing up and moving.