My plan is get into buy and hold rental and the occasional flips but main focus now is buy and hold.

I have had the occasional problem of one guest doing laundry until 4 a.m. and the other guest was kept awake, but by and large it was a huge success.

Does it really provide any protection because of the blurred line of whether you are acting as the owner, or the property manager?

I am in charlotte nc and the only homes you would find at those prices are mobile homes except for the occasional condos which have high hoa that no investor wants/. i want to get four home - two to flip in the price range of 50k-80k and two to hold in a rental portfolio in the range of under 30k.

You can occasionally glance at the market to see if your home is keeping up.

Laura thank you as well for your input I just think I would be a lot better as selling investments that SFH's and would like to add you to get occasional help or ask questions when and if I have any.I was going to start real estate investment this year but decided to grow my capital a little by volunteering to be deployed for the second year in a row. ( the first was iraq).I'll be using my VA loan to buy a 4 unit and plan on refinancing and moving into another four my entire life as often as I can.

Seek the simplicity of the country, the golden ticket of de-facto "debt forgiveness", and the occasional rental opportunity in your local KS market.

But, I worked for an owner who did all his own maintenance and occasionally hired someone to do something he wasn't capable of doing.I'm afraid this guy will micro-manage you.  

I will occasionally contact you and drive by an review the property."

Since we'll be doing all the cleaning / maintenance we'll be using the laundry 95% of the time, with guests having occasional access to laundry.