It feels as if the shift to more of an apartment home is what helps with tenant retention.Having amenities on property, such as dog parks and fitness centers, help with retention, and being close to amenities also helps.I think the same can be said for most smaller multifamily, with having washer dryer hook ups, 2 to 3 beds, at east 1 1/2 baths, if you have some privacy for a yard would be a huge bonus.I really would stay away from pools for small multi families.

As well as coffee shops like Bottoms Up Coffee are moving in and small microbreweries like brew dog and Land Grant

Last night, one tenant complained that two tenants were running around the house being loud and wrestling (a girl and a guy who barely know each other) and that caused the dogs in a bedroom from another tenant to bark non stop.

DSTs aren't successfully raising millions of dollars because they are great investments, they are successful because they help their investors defer tax.This is a classic example of letting the tax tail wag the investment dog.

From where I'm sitting, reading some of these replies, you would think I insulted these peoples' moms and kicked their dogs...or vice versa. 

I would encourage folks to watch the American greed episode on Remington financial.. little different they took due diligence fee's  this company is taking money to bird dog deals for them. but it was proven that in almost 20 years Remington funded less than 12 deals and they took in 5k to 10k per client. made millions. this I see is somewhat of a parallel offer to fund the deals make the bar so high that no one ESPECIALLY a newbie can get over the bar..  

Hey folks. New to the group, but was in the game back before the 2008 recession. I've been a licensed real estate broker in the past, have taken the appraisal courses, but didn't take the test, and now a licensed cont...

My favorite Charlie Munger paraphrased: "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the behavior".

I haven't see the same trickling out behavior. 

I know someone who does short term rentals and does really well in one of the towns I listed, in part because they allow dogs.