That's the time to capture them, and it's best to do it via door-knocking.  

This further supports my concern that I overpriced our summer months and thus had to significantly reduce rates to capture summer reservations. 

I will say that nothing substitutes pure motivation but my logic is to capture all the leads I possibly can and hopefully my sales and people skills will help convert the lead.

My plan is to rent for a 1 or 2 year period and then move the property, capturing the equity yield and 1031-ing to other properties, so vacancy shouldn't be a problem.

:o)I hope you find greener pasture in Oregon and was able to capture tax-free money from the sale of your previous two homes.

i did a buy & hold $11k out of pocket but then did a cash out refi 75% LTV so got $9k back and bought it for $2k out of pocket.the cash-on-cash return, along with the equity capture (after more rehab/selling costs, etc) the 1st year was around 975% (total return).you can make a lot or you can lose a lot of $. make sure you learn, learn, learn & save, save, save!

FacebookRun Facebook ads to lead capture pages offering home valuations. 4.)

When you hold a diversified portfolio you are not only limiting your downside and volatility risk, you are also positioning yourself to capture non-systemic returns that occur in other real estate asset classes and investment strategies outside of buying and holding multi-family assets. 

To get close to 1%/mo gross from nicer smalls, I'd have to get good equity capture from a motivated seller and repurpose/ expand the unit count and or square footage.  

Getting your license is a good idea since you can get access to listed properties and perhaps even capture a commission.