Today that scam is VC-backed marketing firms that figured out educated consumers were buying off online review sites and just started buying all those "unbiased" mattress review sites up in order to push traffic back to a nice website with innocent names that remind of you of Saturday morning cartoons like Casper.

When i asked about STR there with it the one said they would not want that kind of traffic and new people coming in and out.

They could also require a SEPA (or Texas equivalent) or a traffic study.

Zillow, free to list and the most tenant traffic.

Once you've done all that above, you can make sure Google Analytics is running on your website (tons of tutorials on YouTube) so you can study your traffic and start planning a targeted ad campaign.

Talk to the neighours and see what their units look like and what type of traffic they are getting. 

Criteria: 2 hour drive from NYC (assuming no traffic)Your hot take: Best market for small/medium multifamily?

While there is established traffic, your motel must offer something unique or superior to attract guests.

For sure Erik, I haven't lived in the RGV for about 6 years now, every time I visit though something new has been built and the traffic is crazy, nothing like it used to be.

This job is also close to home for the contractor and his crew so some there's some quality of life benefit there from not having to sit in LA traffic.