Its not like hard collateral which is how I am wondering how it is factored into the demand for the investment on comparison to real estate.

However, the Verizon rep did warn us that if internet service is slow in our area (which in general it is), that other households may also rely on LTE hotspots as their main internet source and this may slow down service all around :(  I guess this is a temp. solution until we get Comcast internet installed (or AT&T internet improves from a current snails-pace of 3 megabytes per second).  

Usually it got two main problems.

All of this is still within the free interface of podio, i have been using it for nearly 2 years now with being a realtor and have added over 10,000 contacts to my CRM workspace i created in podio...One of the main reasons i played with podio lastnight in regards to tracking my rentals over excel, was i dont know how you can add receipts and documents to excel so you can track papers per property....This is a feature i have been using heavily with the podio app on my phone lately, i have been uploading the documents when a client makes an offer to the CRM, which stores them to an organized google drive, as well on my realtor expenses side i have been using it to store all my receipts and random pictures i need to store in regards to my realtor business.. these get tagged with a date and time and i dont have to go searching for them on my google drive. 

This begs the question of whether it's more profitable to do long term rental leases or short term vacation rentals or even an Airbnb setup for these properties.The main reasoning here of course is the still very depressed prices offering high potential for return.

Whether your offer is realistic would depend on many factors.  

I have heard (and not seen for myself, but from a buddy who looked) that it might be possible to cash flow on duplexes or triplexes in some parts of South LA and Compton, but again, whether you want to live in that area is a factor of individual preference.

Took a trip there a few months ago to investigate the area...mainly around Racine and Kenosha. 

Visiting a lot of properties also helped me get "desensitized" to the beauty of some of the properties I have seen so that I could focus mainly on the numbers and the property features.Analyze some potential rental properties even though you do not intent to purchase them.

Our home will be build with the main wall of the family room sliced off significantly (picture below).