I also have good tenants but one bad apple can have a bigger impact on an SFR, I think.- Maintenance - roofs etc are more for a single-family per unit than a larger MF building which has 8-12 units in a typical garden-style apartment.Again, neither of these are totally hands-free operations unless you want to invest as a Limited Partner in someone else's deal, just slightly different headaches ;-)

I was looking for a new financial/real estate podcast on Apple, and BP was one of the first that came up! 

@Don Konipol maybe you can forward the link to the members of APPL.

But as we say in Indiana, it's a bit like closing the barn door after the horses left.

He has a technology background and used to be responsible for marketing of microprocessors at Motorola to companies like Apple.

My friends are talking about investing in Austin as well (we are from CA), they've been there and think it's a nicer place among TX, young and vibrant place with some companies like Apple or Amazon.

It's the bad apple that spoils the bunch.

I would recommend checking out the Bob Malecki podcast on BP and also the Note MBA podcast on your mobile device (apple and android).  

Don’t mix apples and oranges.I agree with Jake.

We initially got estimates to renovate our big barn  for 175-220k and ended up banging it out ourselves in 3 months on weekends and nights for 20k.