Why spend 12% for someone to manage a property in good shape where you just collect rent and respond to an occasional need?

A way around the whole issue is something we occasionally consider.  

All of that said, I just want to get together occasionally to give my wife a break from me talking about real estate all of the time.

I look at mine as investments but I do have one in particular I do use occasionally for personal use. 

Quote from @Dan Lucchesi: Quote from @John Underwood: Lower price and advertise in more placed.I even get an occasional booking from a perpetual free Craig's List ad. 

Read books and maybe take on the occasional 3 day seminar. 

Every flip is like peeling back layers of an onion, but this one came with tears, sweat, and the occasional scream into the void.

Prices a few years ago were based on expectations of (in addition to interest rates staying low): - Then current operating cost assumptions (like insurance cost expectations being flat)- A seeming disregard for record levels of new inventory / supply hitting the market- Extremely high inbound migration expectations which are likely to not be met, due to both natural disasters and the boomerang effect when people from California or the Northeast move to the American South and hate every minute of the humidity, the large and relentless swarm of insects, and the occasional hurricane. 

It's really unfortunate that people flash their wins on internet, and then other thousands of people naturally try to replicate that.

We see mis-listed units all the time, but occasionally there's actually an additional one per the assessor.