This is not a rare occurrence - this story is old as time. 

This past year has been my second year managing a long term rental, first time dealing with awful tenets.

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

My brokerage has been tracking the data from the West Penn MLS for the past 2 years, and I would like to share some of the highlights so that we all have some hard facts to lean on when answering this question.

@Matthew Lamoreaux I think if you can find a rental, long-term or short-term, that cash flows well in today's market then this should be a factor that should be viewed as icing on the cake and should be used as a potential solidifier of a deal.

As Min Zhang suggested, making sure you have a reliable property management company is key and can ensure you aren't dedicating any extra time to taking care of this asset when you already have a job with demanding hours.

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

I want to use this property to start buying more properties.

Now you may ask why you would do this?

However, this must be paired with a dedicated and robust negative keyword strategy to prevent your ads from appearing for keywords that ARE NOT RELEVANT to your investing business.For the sake of this example have a look at this attached picture below:In this picture you can see that this ad shows up on the keyword “House for sale near me…” which is not something a seller would search for (not to mention a distressed seller).