This question has likely been asked a million times over on the website, and you won't get a straight answer because there is no perfect answer.

I'd love to hear for you all about the greatest bang for your buck and straight up smart renovations you all love doing to save some money that still makes your tenants (and appraisers) happy!

HML - Darrin Carey - Dayton Capital Partners, he gives it to you straight and is a pleasure to work with!

Then they just get a straight interest rate of 8, 9, or 10% depending on the deal.Good luck.

The process is pretty straight forward, but the benefits are: low risk (there is a real property securing your loan, of course you must do your own due diligence), nice returns (all of the loans I did are double digit returns), passive (after you do your due diligence and fund the loan - it becomes "mailbox money" as some call it, for me it is a direct deposit monthly so I don't even have deal with depositing checks!). 

Also to do the "stack" method, I will use another portion of my capital that same year to invest in a straight up investment property.   

I thought the beaches banned STRs for any property that was a straight investment?

Transparency is extremely important in the property management world - find a PM who shoots straight and has nothing to hide and who isn't just trying to "sell you" on the spot. 

If you can make your investors happy with a straight 50/50 split, then go for it.

@Jason Pabon Going straight to the listing agent was the same strategy I used as well.