I feel like our rents were pretty behind for a while and they are finally catching up to other coastal metros.

My partners are feeling jittery about jumping into multi-unit properties (think 2-4 units) before a possible market crash.

Some work that comes to my mind is:1) Managing tenants to get rent paid2) Diagnosing a repair issue and getting the right team to make the fix3) Fielding messages from prospective tenants on advertised rentals4) This list goes on...I've found a company that automates rent collection and income/expense tracking for free, but I'd like to replace my property management portal altogether and feel I'm only half way there (certainly a tenant facing chat bot would close the gap).

Still working on getting financing from a private or hard money lender

If you ever need assistance with rental analysis for properties or good areas to look into for rentals, feel free to shoot me a DM, I'd be happy to assist. 

@Joe Villeneuve I come from the "professional shops", the Institutional Private Equity and REIT industry, that's exactly how it's done when investments are evaluated, your Financials do not show any profit until all of your initially invested cash has been repaid by the Asset via Monthly, Quarterly, Annually distributions, or at the closing of Sale.

I am from West Michigan as well, feel free to reach out if you would ever like to chat. 

Please feel free to text me - I tried texting the number in your signature but it didn't work!

Hope that helps a bit, feel free to reach out with any other questions.

Feel free to charge for aggravation.