Personally, I enjoy self-managing and screening is my favorite thing, so I'm not in the market for PM services, but a lot of my clients that I work with and other fellow investors would be interested in it.

We enjoy that, but like any business know your customer base. 5.

Covid hit family rentals hard; many landlords are still waiting for their day in eviction court, or have properties that are completely wrecked after nonperforming tenants vacated.

You have to enjoy and reward yourself sometimes.

We decided to make a mini-working-vacation out of it and grabbed a STR outside of Blue Ridge. 

He enjoys the cash flow, has a good tenant screening process, and is OK with the tenant headaches that are going to occur.I would put it higher on the reward side of the profile, but it also is a higher amount of work and harder to scale endeavor.

Particularly enjoyed the second one - it may have left me with more questions than answers, but I think I get more of the gist of it.

Search on FB for "vacation rentals ______"......

Economic Timing.According to data compiled by Marcus & Millichap[2], the Portland area has experienced three very important trends since 2010:The average price per unit for apartments has nearly doubledThe rate of employment growth rose from 2010 to 2015 but has since declined steadily, projected to be up 1% for 2020 (estimated before COVID-19)Roughly 30,000 apartments have been built since 2010, with another 5,600 units slated for construction in 2020Most RHA members have enjoyed a solid decade of price growth, rent growth and steady occupancy.

It won't stay that way forever, so enjoy it while it lasts