This thread is extremely interesting!

If you haven’t already, make sure you’ve documented everything thoroughly—photos, messages, invoices—and highlight the guest’s negligence, like leaving windows and doors open in extreme weather.If you haven’t heard back after asking to escalate, follow up again and politely but firmly request that a senior claims specialist review the case.

I am extremely outpriced in my market, and I am a first time home buyer.

I think one of them offers a public API.Once you get your license, you can join the CAR Chicago Association of Realtors and I have found them to be extremely helpful with questions like this. 

@Travis Boyd Outside of instances where FHA or other extremely advantageous financing options exist I am a proponent of the LLC for investment real estate although the liability piece is overstated.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

.- They are extremely manipulative in their sales approach.

Quote from @Mark Wooldridge: A super concise and accurate summation of the SFR & MF property market - only thing I could add to that is how extremely low interest rates (historically) caused valuations to increase at a faster rate than they would have otherwise. 

This is why is is extremely important that you use local resources who own STR's in the area or manage them at a bare minimum.

Extremely communicative and Bob spent time over multiple phone calls answering specific questions I had concerning the deal.