Quit comparing it to other forms of investing because you are wasting your time and, at this point, creating a lot of unnecessary negative attention to your idea. 

What percentages of businesses in that industry fail annully?

Are a lot of people in it for themselves, and will give you advice that will benefit them, of course, that is human nature?

It has cost many people including myself a lot of unnecessary money and still is because you deal with the tax portion of opening unnecessary LLCs recommended by supposed professionals. 

We knew there was some hot air in them, I expected more fraudulent folks to have created note "funds" and it pyramid down and blow up but i think a lot got stopped in their tracks when they were anticipating a rate cut and not a lot of higher % debt notes to be offered so they never indulged in such tomfoolery.

We are the most productive STR in our area and bring a lot of revenue to the little town.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

I have also read alot of books. 

There are a lot of different avenues that you can take to make this work.

Smaller SFH = less maintenance , there are lots of single looking for a place to live .