HelloOver saturated STR in Ohio markets have caused many STR to drastically lower costs to as low as  $100 for entire bedroom home.My are higher and I'm not competitive with the lower cost Abnbs.I also feel hotel industry are mass building new hotels to compete with str. 

If for no other reason the more predictable and lower maintenance costs are a huge benefit.  

. -- Thus, you can expect to get Class C or D tenants, which have a 15-25% probability of defaulting on their lease payments.2) If your PMC is lowering FICO to 550, what are they doing to improve their screening in other areas?

This likely will result in a lower unit value than if value was derived from comps (especially seeing commercial MF values have fallen in recent times).Good luck

Just like bonds & stocks, different properties will have higher & lower risks.

Cheap houses in lower class neighborhoods will get you cash flow with a lot of headache.

The importance of lowering expenses and increasing efficiency to maximize property income.

In many ways, it is "lower risk".But the not as altruistic side is: most syndicators, even those with $2bn+ portfolios, don't have the track record length to attract institutional capital.  

The house I will get is in a lower income area, currently worth $95-100k, and she still owes about $25k on it.

I got into this by accident when i took a job via upwork as a VA  for Vontive and stated at interview  i could lower there costs and stress by automating there lead gen.I automated the lead gen and they didnt need 5 0f the 6 VAs they hired and we cut there costs by nearly 60%.Thats when i realised that you could automate even the cross platform data scraping.Then i got some extra clients from Upwork and now Im on here to help, offer the same and expand to others.going to the recorder office/courtYou only need to go to the physical building if thre is information on the documents that you need but cant view online.