If you can cash-flow $200-$350/month, with 20% down, that is a solid long-term investment.Also, the turnkey option is the best way to go if you would like the benefits of owning rental property without being completely hands on.

They bought it for 30K 10 years ago and completely remodeled it.

My wife and I are entertaining the notion of using one of our rentals as primarily AirBnb rental. 

Tinian Crawford went to college—and took 6 years to complete his Associate’s Degree in Graphic Design.

These travelling workers are contractors, the guys you see working on the large upright structures of steel at a petrochemical refinery and nitrogen fertilizer plant. 

I don't feel completely comfortable investing in the are without learning everything I possibly can in a market and I don't find that I'm accomplishing that by browsing Zillow.Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The process was very straight forward and easy to complete.

Not completely avoid, but defer indefinitely.

The upside is ensuring I am completely covered, dotting my i's and crossing my t's and ensuring good rent.3) Rip out the additional bed and bath (I am thinking about ripping out the kitchen anyway because I don't want renters treating it as a two-family unit within the two family). 

@Brandon Penn I may have a couple lenders to introduce to you who primarily work with investors.