The three main qualifications that make a cabinet distributor excel is Price, Service, and Quality.

The issue, of course, is that renting close to a college/university is highly seasonal in that students want housing mostly for the beginning of the fall semester. 

Any recommendations from out-of-state investors like myself would be highly highly appreciated.

I’ve been spending time there since I was a child and it feels like a great place, (except for the high crime and drug use, areas which I would never invest in…).

There is some accounting included, like owner statements and keeping track of all the important numbers for a STR property...i.e. occupancy, revenue, RevPAR, etc.As for guidebooks I highly recommend going on Etsy and finding templates for hard copies and templates for a digital copy.

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

Nobody tells you how to achieve the second phase of the project, the sale of the property—which is the whole point of the exercise.

We usually don't analyze residential properties (1-4) with Cap Rate...but your price points are quite high, so maybe those are 5+ units?...

@Juan VargasCredit card stacking is an easy to to ruin your credit and go into massive consumer debt at an extremely high interest rate.

High rental demand so good tenants.