I welcome the thinning of the herd, more for us.@Eric

Seems like the risk on new construction and raw land is higher and therefore should command higher return for investors. 

You sell the property for the same $500K to an owner user with $100k down and carry back a wrap note of $400k at 10%.  

Doesn't sound like you remodeled the property to command a high ARV or the ARV's are just that low. 

As a new investor, I have reached out to several other investors looking for guidance, one of the best pieces of advice that I received was from another BP user.

Despite this, I have tried to be patient and haven't initiated any eviction proceedings, even though Hawaii Tenant Law allows me to issue a "notice to pay rent" after just 5 days of delinquency.I've heard that if you're having issues with a military tenant, you can contact their commanding officer to help resolve the problem.

I absolutely do not like the fact that VRBO keeps information on its users hidden. 

My wife and I make ~$500k/yr. I'm an software engineer on W2 and she started as real estate agent about 2yrs ago. We are looking for ways to reduce taxes on the W2. We currently do not own any rental properties. We di...

Alan Ceshker is a closing attorney that does wraps.https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/ta37I might disagree with the concept, but I still believe in free will for people who want to choose their destiny.

I am not yet convinced that they are accurate since I was told in separate email "Rentometer collects rental listing data and rent data from a variety of sources including: bulk syndicated data, our proprietary rental data survey, and user generated input and listings of rental data".