Reduces maintenance risk by allowing me to plan for long term maintenance based on typical life expectancy of new equipment.I am interested to know if others have implemented strategies similar to my idea, and how well it has worked for them.I am open to suggestions seeing that I have virtually no real estate investment experience, no financial planning credentials, and I just made this whole thing up.Thanks in advance for your helpful comments.Sincerely,Tom Smart

So I claim there is virtually no location that historically has a better return than the San Diego financed buy n hold RE regardless of the property class.  

Also, let's be real about Columbus - there isn't much there - Ohio State is a MASSIVE anchor, there is virtually no downtown (even though it's also the State Capital..) ... areas like the Short North, German Village, Italian Village, etc. are INCREDIBLY incredibly small.

Option 2 is take the risk of where rates go in a year and then cash-out refi to virtually the same loan amount with NOO interest rates.

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Equating that extra REI risk to FDIC CDs with virtually no risk is abnormal investment thinking IMO. 

Here is what is occurring in virtually all "hot" real estate markets nationally:"Hot" = strong population and job growth markets and therefore increasing price trend line This applies to San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Ft.

My first thought is that this area has virtually no demand for airbnb, so I would recommend not pursuing that and looking for a long term tenant.

Virtually all of them are full gut rehabs, meaning every stick of wood in the entire house gets replaced accept perhaps joists and sub floor. 

The city demolished much of the less than worthless housing stock and recently someone bought up virtually everything from the MLS and the prices have doubled and rents are up 20%!