If it's something that should be done right, it's always worth it to dish out the cash to the professional.

Yes, occasionally you can buy a stock at the right time that skyrockets but good luck doing that year after year.  

My kids play it, occasionally.

Our recent experience with Hudson and Marshall is they are now selling mostly HUD CWCOT’s with occasional Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s, Wells Fargo, Chase, and Bank of America.

@Lisa Irimata I have a few STRs in Florida and occasionally I use mashvisor to check on my own property and the data is about 90% accurate.You way want to use one of those services to have an idea on occupancy rates and ideal strategies.

A lot of these new single family investors don't realize how much cap/ex and the occasional tenant non-payment cost them and are really buying $0 net cashflow deals even though on paper it might look good in real life there are a lot of expenses.

If you cleaned the place yourself, you too, would miss things occasionally.  

In practice CAUTION.I have spent the better part of 20 years and a few thousand fundings in these asset class's and even the locals miss occasionally.. someone from out of state the risk goes up expononetially.I am not saying you have to buy turn key .However I strongly disagree with the ease of building a Rock star power team.. 

We can get distracted by what life throws at us and occasionally we will drop the ball, but we can pick up the ball and stay in play.

Like I said above, we sacrificed a good bit on the return because we plan to own the unit for a long time and use it occasionally.