It’s been a wild ride reminiscent of the Wild West days over the past several years in the smokies.

My sophomore year of school while I was at OSU campus in Columbus OH, I bought a duplex that was a 3 min bike ride to campus.

It has been a wild ride in the short term rental market, but I'm hoping to level out with $2,000 a month in cash flow - some months have been better, some have been worse.

For me a few-call/text tenants in path check on their safety and safety of property-have several "go to" guys for emergency repairs-keep the news/weather on at all times keep watch-update property owners of the status of their property and make plans to drive the area where storms rolled through-watch for roofing signs in the area, often a good indicator that a rental you have might have hail damage as well, saves putting in a claim when not needed.just a few I am sure I will think of more though.

It all rides on the decision if your neighbors landlord will sell or not.

3 cars got nailed by hail.

If I was your age Joe I'd be riding your coattails!

We've been riding a very fortuitous and generous real estate wave.

Also, it is a 5 minute bus ride away from the Pentagon making it an ideal place to live for incoming military families.

I was entering them on a car ride with the family an wasn't paying attention to what I was inputting.