Some hotels actually have a condo like structure, where people can own the units, but perhaps are limited on their personal use to only a certain amount of the year - the rest of the year it is in the rental pool managed by the hotel.If numerous room owners stopped paying their bills, you could get tax liens on numerous separately owned units.Hotels are a tough business, an issue I also see come up with them often is that they require refreshes, expensive and relatively often - at least once every 10 years, if not more often. 

i think, in their defense, if you find BP as a new investor, sometimes you start at the beginning - the earlier podcasts, the webinars where Brandon looks at a random duplex on Zillow and it "cash flows" $250 per unit every time. 

It's not quite as easy as renting out two sides of a duplex, but with the right marketing and management you could rent out the extra unit to supplement the mortgage payment. 

You can always do a two unit duplex for rentals that have two floors. 1 floor per unit.

I have a duplex in cleveland with a combined 2,336 sq. ft.

Best case scenario would be house hacking a duplex / triplex / quadplex and learning in your back yard. 

You could even consider a condo with an established HOA that’s STR-friendly—it can simplify maintenance and management.A Few Other Things to Note: Documentation is everything.

I am looking into buying a duplex in Hyatt Park and wanted to get some advice on what contractors/suppliers I could contact that have investor friendly pricing for kitchen cabinets, countertops, and bathroom vanities.

IT can definitely be improved from an ROI standpoint with metered and reassigning all utilities, charging for laundry, renting garages to tenants, renting storage space.I own a portfolio of duplexes and single family properties that are doing well. 

I was accumulating Condos and not town houses in San Diego.