Yes great point, you should account for around 2.5% in loan closing costs, but if the property has been on the market for more then 2 weeks, ask the seller to pay for your loan closing costs as a part of the deal, if seller says no, you can always try to finance the closing costs in, which is fairly popular (add 2.5% to purchase price with seller pays your loan closing costs for you at closing, so you don't have to come up with that additional cash at closing and seller still essentially gets the price he/she wants. 

I will say, it seems like a very popular area as our Agent told us at closing that he heard there were some 4 cash offers on our house that came in just after we got the house under contract.  

Now Yardi Breeze is slowly becoming more popular as a light version of yardi voyager and is great for mixed asset portfolios if you do residential and small commercial.

Hello John, Cleveland is one of the best turnkey market and the most popular for investors because of high rental demand and low cost of entry, property prices are pretty inexpensive here.

Proper, Cbiz and Foremost seem to be the most popular ones specializing in STR insurance.

There is a shortage of those.Airplane hangers at popular big city regional airports. 

It's a topic of great interest to me as I explore the house hacking strategy in California.Hope this thread becomes popular with BP members, and good dialog happens.Regardless of how a person invests, landlord laws impact all of us.What would you say were your Top 5 or 10 takeaways from the presentation you attended?

It is true Chicago has relatively high cap rates for being a world class city though but most of our 2-4 units are in 500k+ range and houses 300k+ range. 2-4 units are what's popular with a lot of people house hacking the north side.

Highly recommend especially in popular markets! 

I think in many areas it's un-popularity of condos vs lack of financing alternatives.