I've got perfect feedback and great guest reviews on my STR but I'm better at running LTR.

Not considering it will take years of perfect rental with no vacancy or capex just to “break even” with where they are today. 

Ok thank you @Max Ferguson - appreciate the input

I would like to start close to home as I plan to self manage the rental side of it.

Hi Brian, the majority of hard money lenders want you to add the rehab money to the loan.

There is no perfect software out there.

Still not a perfect system though.Also, we ONLY install passage doorknobs and keyed deadbolts.- Logically, there really is no additional security provided with both keyed doorknob & deadbolt, but a deadbolt is more secure than a keyed doorknob.- Since you need a key to lock a deadbolt when you leave the premises, tenant's can't lock their key(s) in the home and then pester us to come let them back in.--- Tenants can still lose their keys outside their home:(

Their children (now in their late 40s) inherited the house, but they have not listed it on the market, and I heard that neither is willing to move into it from their current setup, so the property has been sitting vacant.

I look at Pace the same way the IDF looks at the leaders of Hamas. 

Live in one half, rent out the other.