However, purchasing it today would almost require STR to make money and their is anti STR sentiment at the state level and to a slightly lesser extent the city level.

Hagerstown has tons of poverty, crime and a declining population, and an extremely anti landlord government.

Am I anti-college?

Applying legal and common standards will reduce or remove almost all of the tenants that will cause the majority of the anti-social behavior.

Between anti-trust law suits and iBuyers the industry is quite disrupted.

However the permitting costs, time involved, and (this being in seattle) the extreme anti-landlord policies in place there means I have little incentive to do so.   

Then work backwards to ask questions that encourage a process-driven focus, and anti-resulting.

For example, BP has been pretty consistently anti-guru for all the years I've been here, yet people still come in here to post about this or that guru or how they lost all their money.

But no doubt Boise and other parts of Idaho are reaping the CA overflow and out flow from Oregon / for those that don't care to live anymore in an ultra liberal anti police society LOL..   

Quote from @Eric Wilkinson: Beal Properties www.go Beal.comThis Beal Properties that has its own anti-slumlord group with 1.2k members?