Given this is a front loaded fee that needs to be overcome in asset performance, it is a lot harder to absorb on "smaller" deals.  

sm IS LOADED WITH FAKE LENDERS NO LENDER IS GOING TO WANT A PAYMENT THROUGH PAYPAL FULL STOP.

There are pros and cons but i believe for most properties the cons out weight the pros.  

Nobody on here is likely interested in investing in a small village in Southern Spain as it would make no sense but there are loads of Americans investing in the Costa del Sol so it's important to focus on what matters to the community if we want to help and make sure we don't discourage them with involuntarily misleading statement.In comparison, Southern Italy has none of that, expect for the little Amalfi Coast at a very small scale.

This is a common mistake so many people make is not having enough dishware and flatware to accommodate a full load of people.

Brady,When I do my screening for new tenants I would weight the rental history the most.  

Quote from @Paul Azad: Beautiful property Blake, and great growing area, i drove through a few years ago, amazing scenerey and perrenial vacation spot, would you feel comfortable sharing the structure of the syndication for the investors, fees, projected IRR, or time weighted avg returns etc from a potential passive investor perspective?

It's a load of bull.

In our student houses we use a programmable thermostat, but our building monitoring system has its own sensors and can override the wall thermostat and will not allow the temperature to get below 10C (50F) ... we are presently testing a new software load that will also prevent them from cooling the house too far in the summer.

We provide Internet and a Smart TV, which has all the popular apps (Netflix, Hulu, AmazonPrime, Etc.) loaded on it.