Im ideally going to be starting my own property management company for small "boutique/aesthetic STR's" in the Lakes Region of NH. 

just look at PHX  and Vegas circa 2007 to 2011.in PHX you not only had rent compression you had complete vacancies.4 plexs in that city that sold for 350k each in 2005.. were completely vacant in 2009 and were being lost to the banks left and right... and bottomed out at 60 yo 70k a 4 plex... vegas many apartments were experincing over 30% vacancy and were lost to lenders... these things are regional for sure.. in our market in Oregon.. our buy and hold held strongly and grew in those same years.

@Jeremy Brown  good points.. but real estate is so regional.. like in your region  Sacramento Placer county etc.. the agent upon opening escrow would have gotten a preliminary title report back from teh title company within 3 to 5 days.. once that is received it would clearly state at the bottom of the report if anyone other than the title owner had an interest they would need to proof themselves up and sign. so in other parts of the country ( and I find this particularly frustrating) especially attorney closing states.. they will not pull title until way deep into the transactions. ( reason they have to pay an abstractor up front to pull title ) and if the deal fails they don't want to be on the hook for the abstractor fee so you don't find out that you have an issue with title many times very close to closing date and this leads to massive frustrations on the buyers side.. ( at least it has for me in these instances. )But your correct the listing agent probably should have or did know that the seller was married and should have gone down those thought process's.. usually your in the home during the listing signup but i know now with docusign this may not be the case as much as it used to be.. as RE is moving away from much of the belly to belly aspects we enjoyed in the olden days 

Also, look to send unique mailers so you stand out.  

Lastly, our market here in the Bay Area has a unique opportunity of prices falling.

To make a long story short it was unique in that nothing remotely close to that type of property had sold in years.

Hi Edward,Being a Section 8 landlord in Chicago is uniquely challenging, particularly in regards to the level of the improvements needed for the property to pass inspection. 

Mary, you have a terrible habit of applying your small, unique niche to the rest of the world. 

Anyone live there and willing to provide some advice on what neighborhoods are worth investing in, which ones should be avoided (if any), and any unique things about Colorado Springs (or Colorado for that matter) I should consider?

Mobile Home living in every Travel- trailer  Park  is very different in different regions of the Country.