Rental properties can still offer mid/high single digit net rental yields with inflation protection and appreciation upside. 

A little about myself:My name is Casanova Brooks, I'm a 27 year old digital marketing consultant, and I'm very excited and motivated to learn more and get into REI.

(Not trying to advertise ; just trying to be honest)I am from the STL, the LOU or for the keyword St.

We advertised on HomeAway and I used to send people a link to the review page to make it as easy as possible.

Here are some suggestions to market for quality tenants for a SFR rent by room:Advertise on rental websites: There are several websites like Craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, and Padmapper where you can advertise your rental listing.

We are originally from Colorado and love it there as well, my wife is a travel nurse so we get to move to cool places a lot for short stints of time and I work from home and own my own marketing/advertising/design company.Goals: My goal with investing is to practice the brrrr strategy as well as fix and flip.

There are many ways to protect yourself, the best way in my opinion, is doing your “due diligence” on the Ira company and even more important is the “due diligence” on the investment.In this day and technology age background checks, social media, state and local licensing filing pages on line, better business bureau, BP forums, etc I don’t think a company advertising and in the public everyday  can fool all the people all the time. 

There are also some not advertised you can find through google. 

Question is pretty straightforward, I live in the Bay Area and see numerous MultiFamily properties advertised for 5% Cap Rates and below.

Many wholesalers now are just doing robo calling and trying to get folks on the phone I get one to two of those a day.. most I don't talk to some times I will .. many of these are using off shore call centers so semi broken English reading form a script.. but they produce leads.. its just like buying a car.. the sales guy ( telemarketer) then hands you off to the closer.. then you have the I buyers backed by wads of VC money big advertising budgets and super sophisticated web sites that spit out automated offers.. the business is changing no doubt.. and there is no doubt like Will Bernard stated its probably the toughest thing in real estate to master ergo 9 out of 10 never get past first base..