I have no experience right now aside from the books, blogs, and podcasts I've been consuming.

Basically, I live a pretty modest lifestyle and will continue to.

Water/ sewer/ garbage is about the same cost for a 500 square foot unit as it is for a 3,500 square foot house, so utilities become a bigger percentage of total rent and costs with smaller units.Collecting rent is time consuming.

Hello,I joined Biggerpockets to expand my network and increase my knowledge in support of my goal to build on a modest rent-and-hold portfolio.  

Podcasts can be easily consumed while engaging in another activity.

Zero interest notes are guru junk, you'll have imputed tax rates and such notes can have other legal issues.Any arrangement with Rent To Own is mentioned in Dodd-Frank with a consumer or tenant buyer. 

The downside is a likely modest increase in property taxes. 

It would be costly and time consuming, neither of which I was willing to pay.

Basically the further out the longer the minimum stay, dates in the near future my minimum stay is 1 night.)I am beginning to think the best way to do a lot of this stuff is by training a virtual or real world assistant to manually update and manually sync other things, when the work is load is too time consuming for one person.

The Fed gradually raising rates is smart since the end consumer wouldn't complain as much on a .25 increase every quarter over a 2.00 increase all at once.