So, you have to understand your customer as well as part of learning your market. 

i keep seeing:1. buy out of state rental in a solid neighborhood with long-term potential (just as you are recommending) but then...2. have one rough tenant turn that costs a couple grand, and3. give up on real estate investing, and turn on everyone involved in the transaction for not guaranteeing that sweet cash flow in month 1 I literally just had this conversation with a prospective client when he asked me what a typical outcome looks like.I told him everyone nods and agrees when I drill into them the risks of investing OOS and in Detroit.

You are the customer and if they can’t provide the type of time needed to get you set up then you don’t need that agent.

You can find some decent deals in Lawrence I just helped a customer close on a SFH last week.

However I have great units and we provide excellent customer service so I generally have little turnover.

We use a custom lease that has evolved over more than a decade to protect us and the property owners.

Many companies will be lazy/cut costs after they have a large enough customer base.Currently Dataskip.io is the best. 

There were issues syncing the reservation calendar, and it is nearly impossible to reach a customer support representative with Booking.com as an individual STR owner.

They want to be paid 5 figures or more but can’t be bothered to learn more than their customer. 

Ironically, platforms designed for real estate (Zillow, Apartments.com, Rentler, etc.) produce very few tenants for me, compared to FB Marketplace (and I also find a lot of their functionality to be user un-friendly, from the landlord side). ...you'd think that platforms custom-made for real estate would make the process a snap for landlords, but it takes me a lot longer to post and manage rental listings on Zillow or Rentler than it did on Craigslist.