Or maybe there's a good middle ground to shoot for instead, or even a totally different option.

Is there anything different about managing rentals in these communities compared to any ordinary rental?

Keep exploring different avenues and stay persistent; I'm confident the right opportunity will come along.

I have listed plenty of properties in numerous area and have never seen a market so slow and im wondering if there is anything I can do in order to market the properties in that particular market.

For people who have at least one investment property, what is one thing you wish you knew before making that first investment and/or one thing you would've done differently for that first investment property?

every complex is different. 

I have a choice to make on which lender to go with on my rental property refinance, however as I research each lender, I cannot find adequate information about their actual business practices. A few I found some infor...

Most agents will price one 5 bedroom the same as another and they will have wildly different qualities of furniture, location and revenue.

I bought a property a while back that had the legal description messed up when the survey was recorded, the property was sold numerous times and every time there was an affidavit of correction needed to fix the legal description in the sale.

(Father in-law was an insurance adjuster) Each lender has different requirements when approaching un permitted work.