Just like anything, people will argue both points.

Regarding real estate books, The ABC's of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroy and Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads by Larry Loftis are great books targeting multi family properties.

One can argue that it gives you the ability to individually control different areas of the home. 

Instead, they argue like a kinder-gardener that "it wasn't their mess so they ain't cleanin' it up".

However, they argue that the precedent had been set for the landlord to have all utilities in his name even though this is not stated in the lease. 

"I'm going to post a question on BiggerPockets, but I'm going to argue with everyone who doesn't answer the question with the answer I'm hoping to hear" should be required signature lines for some people here 

It is an emotional debate, not a mathematical one.I am not arguing with you.

Some people will argue that the Solo gives you checkbook control, but you can set that up with a Roth/LLC structure too. 

There is an interesting article below that is focused on REITs but has some good analysis that actually argues the effects may be nation wide, and also has some good data on the apartment markets supply and demand fundamentals aside from the effects of flooding:https://seekingalpha.com/article/4102880-quantifyi...I still remember distinctly that I was in a Marshall Reddick "seminar" in early 2006 and he had a bunch of guys that were scaling up out of state in Mississippi, that were trying to say how great Hurricane Katrina had been for them since their property prices skyrocketed afterwards ... in retrospect, the supply shock to that market from the hurricane temporarily covered up some deeper supply and demand fundamental issues that would later resurface in a big way, as we all know. 

You can easily argue that in this scenario the land development is less risky.