It's literally a race between you and X hundred other people in your area for the same deals.

I'm not sure if this applies to ESAs (though I do know that it is not legal to deny tenancy to someone with an ESA), however, when it comes to service dogs (ONLY dogs and the odd miniature horse, can be service animals), handlers are not required to disclose that they have a service dog to a landlord, as service dogs are NOT pets - they are defined as medical equipment under law.

I recently came into a little money and want it to work for me so I can create passive incoe and get out of the rat race.

@Marty Joyner there's some good information on this post in regards to buy and hold and vacation rentals, so I won't beat the dead horse.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse.

I'm a slow-and-steady-wins-the-race kind of guy.With those criteria, Any other approaches that fit somewhere between lease options and syndications?

"The rat race is not part of the plan".

With that scenario its a race to the bottom price wise to get tenants.

Whoa, whoa, whoa...back up the horse carriage.

If you get off that horse in mid stream, you might get wet.