My personal SFH built in 2019 has been on the rental market since Oct. 2023.

Lake Villa's growing market further enhanced its appeal.

I feel like this is a good time in the market cycle to exit and diversify?

It's going to vary by market of course.   

If you are sending generic marketing like most people trying off-market acquisition for the first time, it's probably going in the bin straight away.When you say you went through 3k leads, what do you mean?

I’m not over estimating the ARV I know my market like the back of my hand.

So, I'm looking at buying a manufactured home because there is nothing in my market.

All that said, the STR platform manager market's pretty terrible in general.

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If your market is predominately male buyers, I'd consider the man cave, but my market is predominately female so I wouldn't consider it.