They also refuse to overlap tenants, IE won't do showings in the tenant's last month so you're pretty much guaranteed to have at least 1 month gap.

I keep hearing that it makes sense to focus on markets that have strong economic and population growth, but there's really no overlap between population growth, economic growth, low prices, and low taxes.So my question really is, what's the best way to get out of this?

I do agree that smaller units can be a better ROI than 2- and 3- bedroom properties, especially since there is so much overlap in the guest avatars between those bedroom counts.

Given that we're both in Chicago and have overlapping interests, it would be great to connect.

.), so some numbers overlap, but there are some excellent data points to consider.

@Kevin Gallagherthere are a couple things overlapping herefirst, with a BRRRR, one of the goals is to boost the ARV as much as you can so that you get reimbursed / paid back on the refi. 

I think a lot of the problems you cite can be fixed or at least improved by this - ability to nail it down to better dial in on the searchers you are looking forThe above categories are confusing and have a lot of overlap and there are much better ways to do it, but I will leave it to the imagination as to why no action here has been taken..

These are just suggestions - find some overlap between your interests and your natural talents, and then figure out where that aligns in the market. 

I think you are on the right track comparing options - however I would note that there isn't really a differentiation between "DCSR" and "ARM" - there are a lot of 5 Year ARM options for DSCR Loans so theres overlap - maybe you are referring to a true 5-year balloon bank/credit union type loan?

But that's a tiny tiny fraction of overlap.