In my experience, these jobs can tend to over-glamorize and under-support, but I would like to find out more.Other than looking online for some openings that can provide some training, I was planning to attend the local REIA to network and market myself.  

For me, I tend to keep my properties.

Another approach we're exploring is tending toward item 2 above and either selling off part of future deal flow (assignments) or strictly acting as the financier for equity and taking a promote with other operators instead.  

Remember Canadian funnyman Red Green's lament: "When the stuff hits the fan, it tends to be distributed unevenly."

From your experiences, do you like them or do you tend to stay away from them?

If I purchased a MFR I would have had to figure things out ASAP other wise I would have had to pay a mortgage for two units (which tends to be more pending on the purchase) or renovate around vacancies.

They tend to be higher turnover and higher crime.

Otherwise, I'd have to compete with SFRs, which tend to have more yard space and parking, and just bigger in general.   

That said, I tend to give the most recent landlord little weight for concern that they will be more than happy for a problem tenant to go somewhere else.  

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