(rents also peaked from $1900 to $2600 in 2 years)Sale Price  -             $360K - $370K in the area for same kind of units.            

In my experience tenants on the lower end of rent tend to cause more damage than higher price tenants.

Greatest thing about these platforms (Airbnb, VRBO, etc.) is the you get to see all your competitors, their pictures, amenities, pricing, etc. 

Do you have a preferred type of property and price range you're looking for in general (knowing the costs can be different based on they market)?

Im working out what that would look like in terms of price point.

When I looked at PPR's notes, PPR had second liens, and I wanted firsts, and it seemed like their inventory was fully priced. 

I don't see much waterfront in that price range of 650k or under.

Not sure how they can get better prices than you doing the same shopping. 

They sell a 4 unit for close to 1 million dollars close to Jacksonville. they want 250k or 300k down. there's no upside. you can google the properties on biggerpockets and there isn't a lot of satisfaction. it's a slow return and get rich slow strategy. our focus is always as a builder to add maximum value, lower cost as low as possible, build and rent and build and sell the same product and raise prices to help investors out. we have a large market share and large purchasing power in our market in columbus ohio. the one strategy I never liked about turnkey new build brokerage companies like them and build2rent or others is they don't really build close to urban centers and most are single family homes. the numbers don't work on single family homes. if single family was the way to go more companies would be doing it. but by far the most common type of new construction built is three story walk up apartments.

"Good" areas will be priced high, "Bad" areas will be priced low.