I grew up in Cupertino CA.. ( land of Apple) Before apple existed.. this community was 99% Caucasian. 

When running comps to gauge market demand, vacancy, and rent, I would advise against comparing STR stats to MTR projections simply because it's apples and oranges.

I also agree with your assessment of the majority of the type of indivulaes that are on section 8, and although there are exceptions, it does not fit my business plans to waste my time trying to find the few good apples in a tenant pool consisting predominantly of damaged goods.Each landlord has the right to choose to whom they wish to rent to and although others may judge it really is no one else's business.

Do one task at a time in each app so you can compare apples to apples.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.

And if a topic becomes a spam magnet, then the topic can just be locked.TLDR - there are ways to clean up a thread without deleting it entirely.

So when shopping understand this is how you shop for insurance and then try to get an apples to apple comparison or at the very least make your agent work to explain any "liabilities or what is not covered" on the policy if they can't rattle it off easily then they are not fimular with the product they are selling and really should not be selling it. 

To compare apples to apples, numbers to numbers, feel free to contact me.

I don’t yet have a GC for this reno and am under the impression the best way to bid it out is to share drawings so that people are bidding apples to apples. 

The returns are all based on the deals and the leverage is similar. 5 smaller properties is more liquid and the risk is lower since finding 1/5 bad apples is better than finding 1/1 bad oranges.

I may even hire a v/a to cold-call for me in addition to purchasing a car magnet.