When she moved out I tried to keep it section 8 with section 8 but the Housing Authority made it pretty difficult.Two aspects I didn't see covered above is:1.

If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.

Columbus has been pretty solid for investors - we're seeing steady growth without the crazy peaks and valleys of bigger markets.

@Andrew Slezak we're pretty aggressive about rent increases for our clients, but some of them won't approve us to pursue.So, don't automatically blame the PMC!

I agree with what others felt: this is a pretty spammy post that looks like it could’ve been written by AI.

Amen to this, thank you for the suggestion.Yea I've taken on the risk of not having a day job and building a business, it's pretty stressful and you're building out of necessity instead of passion.

If you are paying cash for the STR this seems pretty easy. 

They don't communicate well, don't take responsibility for their actions, do not clean or maintain homes well, and will shaft you when it's time to leave.Other than that, it's a pretty good system.

i have much higher expenses and more headaches of course, but cash flow is higher.most major tier 1 or tier 2 cities should have significant enough rental demand to be able to implement this strategy pretty successfully. 

If you're numbers are close to actuals, I think it looks like a pretty solid deal.