As long as price increases are trending up it means demand from buyers is outstripping supply from sellers.

If these properties are bid up by institutional investors then I don't see the rental market softening much because it will keep the prices up and supply down. 

There has to be more companies supplying us apartment builder types.

You have ideas and supplies to make it happen.

I am looking to get your thoughts on Steam Cleaners, Carpet Cleaners, Cleaning supplies you would recommend or not recommend using for certain jobs (shower grime, that unwanted hard stain to remove from flat stovetops, carpet stains, and more), etc. 

Unless you really want to do complex models or really want to learn about M1 and M2 money supplies you can probably get away with some really good books by experts in the field (non-academia).One more question unrelated to college: My ultimate goal is to make passive income off buy and hold real estate investments, but that isn't a day job I can start out with.

It took weeks for us to work through pages of approval requirements and get this lender comfortable with the team we had put together to carry the development forward.The other critical piece to the funding equation was to assemble a team of investors capable of supplying the 20% in equity financing ($1.8M).

It seems logical that the demand for STR would be higher in the mountains, but also the supply would potentially be higher in the mountains as well.

If I was to pull the plug on my day job and go to a place with low entry point and good housing supply and opportunity for low entry point it would be Detroit. 

The community is great and close so demand for rentals there outweighs the supply.