Water/ sewer/ garbage is about the same cost for a 500 square foot unit as it is for a 3,500 square foot house, so utilities become a bigger percentage of total rent and costs with smaller units.Collecting rent is time consuming.

I am into SFRs and am looking to enhance my knowledge in buy & hold investing

Podcasts can be easily consumed while engaging in another activity.

Zero interest notes are guru junk, you'll have imputed tax rates and such notes can have other legal issues.Any arrangement with Rent To Own is mentioned in Dodd-Frank with a consumer or tenant buyer. 

It would be costly and time consuming, neither of which I was willing to pay.

What better place to further enhance my real estate knowledge and network with other investors than Bigger Pockets?!  

Basically the further out the longer the minimum stay, dates in the near future my minimum stay is 1 night.)I am beginning to think the best way to do a lot of this stuff is by training a virtual or real world assistant to manually update and manually sync other things, when the work is load is too time consuming for one person.

The Fed gradually raising rates is smart since the end consumer wouldn't complain as much on a .25 increase every quarter over a 2.00 increase all at once.

At the end of the day, collecting unpaid rent is often time-consuming.

I imagine you have some type of consumer debt that is a higher cost than 4% and is not tax deductible.