@Brandon StevensThere is another recent topic about best place to have a VRBO.It seems that the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gatlinburg TN is one place people are buying more VRBO properties.I would try and buy 4 or so properties at 20% down and finance them all.

I just recently got my license up in Michigan, Go Blue!

When it happens right their name appears in blue and they get a notification via the BP system.

There are blue collar training programs that pay more than you are making.AS a note: I think that your wife is using her aunt as her "security blanket". 

Or "please let me know what I can do to help you".. randomly out of the blue.

@Steve B.We have a really strong "blue collar" rental market in the OKC area.

But within that look look to the south east and there are some good blue collar sprawls.Maybe somebody else can speak to B class areas? 

Very noble of you, I think most blue collar land lords have done this before, but we all learn our lesson at some point. 

Only an idiot would try to ignore the red flag, err blue tarp on the roof.

Speaking from my past experience: I used to manage my brothers STR's which we're all on airbnb; There we're times when cashflow was just as it was written in the books, then there we're times when stuff would just come out of the blue and we hadn't anticipated it.