Quote from @Marcos De la Cruz: Can anyone recommend a way to check out the crime stats for the areas I'm looking in?

@Jennifer Durkee Whichever service you go with, I'd ensure that you de-duplicate your list because, on a list with 10,000+ records on it, you'll likely have 200 - 400 of those as duplicate homeowner records.

Things get HOT in Scottsdale (that's somewhere in Arizona ) where it was 117 degrees yesterdayShootout at short-term rental riles mayorhttps://www.scottsdale.org/cit...By just about any definition it was a bad party – ending in gunshots, screams and sirens.But it could have been worse.Perhaps miraculously, no one was injured during a gunfight after a holiday party spilled into a normally-quiet south Scottsdale cul-de-sac.While the East Kimsey Lane party at a short-term rental was still being investigated, police learned a woman who died of gunshots in Phoenix likely was at the Scottsdale party.

Quote from @Paul De Luca: Quote from @Monika Ruszaj: Hi all!

As it is, all a potential buyer would see is new roof, new driveways/cul-de-sac, new patios and privacy walls. $440/mo Hoa. 

Quote from @Edwin De leon: 1) In the real world can I buy a REO with the strict VA LOAN requirements 2) What do i need to do find REO's that will pass VA Minimum Property Requirements ( MPR )3) What steps do i need to do to  ensure I do not end up getting caught up in major costly repairs with a bad REO or Foreclosure4) what other advice can you share with me to help me not get hurt with buying a REO / FORECLOSURE  An REO or Foreclosure means it has aleady gone through to foreclosure and the bank now owns the property.

@Paul De Luca and @Jonathan Klemm, thanks for the mentions.

Something that California investors use to avoid this issue legally is creating a Delaware Statutory Trust instead of an LLC.

Quote from @Paul De Luca: Unless you have a lot of capital on your own, most people with a lot of doors (say 100+) almost certainly have private money or equity partners.

I think it's really interesting that Airbnb has become the de facto regulation fighter in every state while the other channels like VRBO don't invest any resources at all.