Without rent control i either raise their rent far above market rents so they give me notice (my preferred method) or i simply do not renew their lease.

It is clearly possible to do well here, but as expats I believe you need to be extremely careful in entering the market.

My hiccups from a percentile basis are minute to folks with a fraction of my portfolio simply because of the aforementioned statement.

Anthony,You would be surprised by using some old school methods like simply writing a letter like you mentioned. 

Look, I have no idea who Eric is, what type of person he is but I will say after a quick search I saw that he did in fact sell his company for MAJOR $$$ and that he is active in Section 8, no idea if his course is good or garbage but still felt the urge to respond because I am so tired of hearing SCAMMER, find it online to EVERY SINGLE post asking about any course. anyone who actually sells their business and nets 110 mil is NOT going to dive into Section 8 or any real estate for that matter other than fine personal residences etc.. they retire and spend it.. so I dont think so.Plus section 8 is simply not complicated its run by the Sec 8 folks in each city.. nothing magical about that.. its a tough way to go being a section 8 landlord lots of drama.

If the claim can be disputed, OTA disputes it and makes it hard to collect and the host may simply give up.i think pm, airBnB, guest and LL all know who was responsible for the vape in the toilet, but ota did not charge guest or pay for it and gave the guest a discount (a discount for an issue that the guest was responsible for).  

That's why you enter. 

Turnkey property is the safest way to enter real estate.

The property manager may have some interest in your success (if you get a good one) simply because they are making the most consistently - 1st months rent plus 10%/month.

There simply isn't enough margin in this business to layer on a national company, without charging you an arm and a leg and/or doing a substandard job.