If you have been waiting to refinance your home to pull out cash because of a 2%/3%/4% rate you will be happy with the rates enough to act now.

I'd reach out to Alamo title here in Fort Worth.

A good PM should be on top of this and not simply ride out the market shifts.Technology & Reporting: What tools do they use to monitor guest interactions, maintenance, and property performance?

It is against Fannie Mae and Freddie and RESPA guidelines to provide such information unless specific information is left out and additional verbiage is added to the DU approval to specify that 1.

I live in the SF Bay Area and have decided to buy my first single-family home.I fully acknowledge and recognize that the SF Bay Area and California (in general) may have some of the worst cash flow numbers in the entire country.I've already traveled to cheaper Midwestern states to look at real estate opportunities, but have decided to invest here in the SF Bay Area as I'm purchasing with the intention of living in it first and foremost, and then renting it out sometime in the near future when I move overseas.I'm looking for anywhere in the Greater Bay Area/Northern California region (even Sacramento & Central Valley is okay) with better than average purchase price to rent ratio, and some appreciation (if possible). 

As stuart pointed out that part of the city is absolutely dead.

The land purchase you could acquire out of pocket.

I also continue to market and show the apartment during this time up until a lease has been signed and all move-in fees are paid in full in guaranteed funds (cash or wire only).  

Anyone out there have any experience with STRs in central mass?

But my background and experience is in Business Development, and Marketing Strategy in close integration with sales, so I figure I at least have some transferable skills that'll allow me to make the most out of property as an asset class.