Hey @Heather McNicol, we aren't anti-mentor.

@Preston Dean So those searches aren't giving me anything for my area, probably because the Upper Peninsula of Michigan isn't exactly Hollywood or South Florida.

The tenants have paid and if someone is thinking about moving out then an extra surcharge that hits if they aren't out in time for us to turn the place for a lucrative AirBNB short term rental can help massage the move out timing.That said with MTR we do not have the cleaning costs that eat up a lot of STR gross, and its lower hassle in some ways.  

Not sure you're quantity of funds, but I'd buy 1 quality property with a 1.25 DSCR(so on paper--intrinsic), and ideally 1x the downpayment money in debt notes(or if that's too hard, minimum 33% but ideally at least 60-80%).

Less oversupply with that product type and more renters that were renting the more expensive bigger cabins are choosing the lesser ones because they love the area but don't want to spend as much on rent.We've talked with several long time investors out there and there isn't a one that have held on to their cabins over time that aren't still adding more. 

If you aren't comfortable posting your experience, please PM me. 

@Venecia BaezIf you can invest locally do that if not look elsewhere. 9 times out of 10 when people are stuck and unable to take action I usually see people worrying about things that either won't happen or aren't an issue.

When you analyze a market properly (1% Rules aren't properly), you're analyzing all the properties in that market at the same time.It's even more dangerous for newbies to use any Rule of thumb.Rules of thumb are nothing but shortcuts, which seems to be the growing method of doing anything now. 

They don't even sell courses.So, Licensing Experts definitely aren't a guru. 

They just aren't that profitable.