Having said that, rents go up over time and as you mentioned tenants are paying down the mortgage (with more going to principal over time). 

You made another post about you mentioning you do well with STR in NJ.

As Miguel mentioned above, a majority of the time MTR residents do not search for housing in advance.

I can point you in any direction if you have specific questions or need more information on a topic its funny how note investing is Soup De Jour these days on BP.. 10 years ago no one even mentioned it..  

The rate will also be lower than either of the two previously mentioned options. 

I am not really interested in taking the land to any of those levels.The course I mentioned gets into some of the next level.

As mentioned above, advertise in more places (Booking.com, Airbnb/VRBO,  Zillow, Furnished Finder, etc). 

As I mentioned, it's a fine enough app, with enough logic and capability for small-scale acquisitions from the looks of it.

This is a great read and references some of the points that other people in this thread have mentioned about building a team.

Your mention of using GRM as a first pass and then diving deeper into cap rates and IRR is exactly how I’ve seen some of the sharpest investors I know operate.I had a buddy in Chicago who bought a four-unit last year in Pilsen.