I am concerend about where the general sentiment is going.

I can echo the sentiments regarding Autumn Property Management. 

In the military as I visited different units as the chaplain, most would voice the same sentiment in a round about way, "the only way the mission succeeds is based on what we do and without us their would be mission failure." 

The general sentiment toward STR PM's seems to be a bit negative, but there are still a lot of management companies and for a good chunk of STR owners there seems to be a need for management services.

@JB B.I kind of have the same sentiment as @Scott M. in this post.

Granted, this can be a learning experience about how to harden rentals properly, but it often creates all kinds of nostalgic sentiments that can flare up into conflicts with the tenants.The usual scenario is that the tenants move in, live as tenants do, and the newbie landlords go back in and find delicate stuff, or meaningful stuff, or stuff that they didn't even know was meaningful to them damaged or painted over or disrespected in some way, and then the newbie landlords get in this forum and moan about how tenants just don't respect their landlord's property, and they get ten other newbies commiserating and telling them that yes, yes, yes, they're right, and their tenants are bad, bad, bad...and of course this can lead to all kinds of poor decisions.

I'll echo everyone's sentiments and say to try to give it a shot by talking more with them.

The sentiment that you bring up is true to some extent, if the properties were bought and improved, the area would trend up in theory.

Hello @Katie Tran,I agree completely with your sentiment regarding the importance of investing safely.

You are right "real estate goes up", but I'm not going to decide if a deal is good or not based on that general sentiment.