I would buy a house all day every day based on good returns and the proper STR "community" before I cared about the "brand" per say.

I taught myself Spanish, I already know the construction crews in the area, the realtors, the communities, the land, I have someone managing the property, I have a maintenance crew… I already did an incredible amount of the work involved in finding a deal and turning it around through reconstruction and proper management.

Make sure you have properly served the notice and you have "Proof of Service" properly filled out. 

Not a position anybody wants to be in, but he apparently doesn't disclose that.There are ways to do this much more safely, but of course, you need proper training and to be told what to avoid.It is predatory.

One of the biggest challenges of investing in Rustbelt cities is knowing where to invest and properly understanding the cooresponding pros & cons.Here's copy & paste advice we share to help to address this challenge:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?

I cannot sell a house with broken equipment, and I cannot pay someone for breaking what they were suppose to install. 

Looking at ideas on how to structure the deal to the landowner  to get the land aquired and infrastructure installed.

Section 8 is a nice program, but you will get low IQ tenants who don't know how to clean properly.

Like I mentioned in my previous post getting a PM who will actually manage your property properly will be very hard.

Also reality is the only time you will get nailed for not managing deposits properly is if you use that money.