I have an extensive background in construction for the past 4-5 summers in-between school.

This was withdraw and a study group has formed to look into this over the summer. 

So as I'm in NH taking 6 kids to summer camp (www.FairfieldTrips.org) at the moment, I found a great thread here - which is how I found this website -https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/86/topics/166452-new-hampshire-areas-for-buy-and-hold#I want to buy up to a 4 unit MF home maybe 5-15% on it ....

Last summer, I orchestrated the reconstruction of my grandmother's house into a 10-room boarding house, and am now managing the the property and its tenants. 

Predicting the market that will have the best appreciation over the next few years is akin to going into a strawberry field in the fall and trying to pick out the plant that will produce the biggest strawberry next summer.

Last summer I had a sump related flood in a property in southern Ontario.

Our original intent was to use it ourselves to escape the heat in summer, and possibly rent it out on websites like VRBO or AirBnB. 

I'm considering looking at having a management company manage the property for me, but would like to do a local property.I'm not working right now--taking the summer off before going back to doing some consulting work.

Where we have apartments, the area schools are pretty well in sync so I haven't had this issue, but do often have people wanting to move out early (usually those who have graduated) and others who want to get settled into a place in the summer, so we have the outgoing tenants sign a statement stating when they will be out of the unit so that the new tenants can move in.  

It's definitely seasonal, with big rushes in summer and various "bike weeks" and such.