Other low-cost amenities that can boost ROI include a coffee and tea station with basic supplies, a welcome basket with snacks and water, or small outdoor games like cornhole.

I live in NYC and started investing in Buffalo a few years back, mainly for the reasons that you mentioned. 

You should have two main lessons learned from all this.First: Tenant screening.

But that also depends on your down payment- putting only around 20-25% down is hard to have a profitable STVR.Ultimately with STR v LTR, I'd be mainly curious about your intended use of the property. 

I mainly use FCI and Madison for the majority of my notes.

Economics matter: Market trends and supply and demand. 

If I was looking in PG County, I think Hyattsville and College Park would be my main targets.

The main criteria is consistency with adopted plans.

Once that happens you are in a different world.So I would get rid of the tenant, mainly because there have been 4 violations with the county your tenant has been served.

I could easily train virtual assistants to handle these payments and have an app created for encrypting sensitive data for facilitating the transactions through financial service partners from my main line of business.