Did you have a good agent on the buy side? 

Many foundation repair companies (and some pest control) offer services for crawlspaces, to include mold remediation, encapsulation, etc.

Also I'm not quite sure how it works as far as agents go I saw something that buyers and sellers both don't have their own agents?

I am a southern California real estate agent and I would say that the stock market may get you a better return on your 275K in capital invested.

I bank with them and have been happy with their service. 

Bad part is there's lots of paperwork you need to full out online.

Purchase price: $400,000 Cash invested: $57,000 Type: Single Family ResidenceParking: Garage - AttachedStories: 2Bath: 3 Full BathsBuilding Size: 2,686 Sqft.Lot Size: 50,791 Sqft.Year Built: 2005

My guys/gals dont buy from the bigger we buy houses franchises I have never seen one of those come through.As stated its a sales and marketing job full stop.. very tough very time consuming and capital intensive if your going to do some volume..

Definitely that was money making time in terms of operations and appreciation as well.Things have changed now, there is so many STRs now that people are renting for 100-150 USD a night which is like a motel price.Now it may make sense from the perspective of, if Poconos is where you travel a lot with family or you are buying full cash to park the money, or tax strategy or various other personal reasons could be there where it might make sense to invest there.But coming in from the perspective of an investor who are new or have little experience and are trying to build wealth from not too heavy asset portfolio.

We have a couple renting a house in Minnesota who is consistently behind on paying rent but they end up paying the full rent within the month, staying just out of reach of agreement termination.