It easy for people to get up on their crystal palace podium but the moment it comes knocking on your door or in your neighborhood peoples opinions change drastically. 

Down payment funds may seem tricky to those who get lured in by the countless con artists on social media selling the notion 100% financing using other people's money is easy.

If only it was that easy!

Additionally, it's easy for a house on one lease to get absolutely trashed by the renter.

Also look at those Vrbo and Airbnb calendars and see how full they are and what nightly rates they are getting.Should be easy from here to see if a new property would pencil in or not. 

@LaShon Evans DIY managment is easy - until it isn't!

Each corporation runs differently so some are easy to deal with and some not so much.

I think it is easy to become overly reliable on these tools and just let it run.

So all in all - it was a relatively easy learning lesson and not much loss on my end.  

It's a super affordable real estate market where you can still find deals that hit the 1% rule anywhere from $120-180k purchase price.