How many small banks and businesses went bankrupt and closed?

Are you building for pure investment purposes or are you looking to use some of the space for personal/personal business use?

Albuquerque is already such a wonderful place to live and do business so I am all for anything that will make it even better.  

If you find a solid, boots on the ground realtor/PM who has experience in the flip business you should be fine. 

We both run our own businesses but we feel that real estate will help make sure we both maintain our life plans of not needed to work as much any more.

Definitely a bad way to do business. 

You are wise to limit your scope to a particular type of company.I have been in the industry for the past two decades, and from my years in the business, I can recommend a couple of other companies outside of my family. 

This is a business.

Weather cools, people are busy with school, resting from summer, prepping for the holidays, etc.

It offers flexibility as a landlord to be able to offer more or less rooms as needed, protection to the landlord in that you can hedge with adding LTR or STR to the mix, and simplification to the business as your only dealing with one address.