No big deal, you can pay the two mortgages no problem.But then all of a sudden another property is giving you problems.

It seems that every STR owner I know in our region started saying bookings were down right when gas prices started to surge, interest rates started to rise more rapidly, and inflation started being more painful.

These returns could be erased by an enormous surge in supply within the city itself.

I was also making progress with Crescom on great rates, but they had a sudden tragedy befall them (robbery/murders) that delayed things to the point where I had to break glass and look elsewhere. 

I see this is your first post on BP ever, but all of the sudden you are very active on this thread promoting one turnkey provider. 

The big ticket items you are almost always aware off, such as house payment, car payment etc, but where most people struggle with is the small spending.That’s what is eating away at their savings.A $4 cup of coffee, $15 lunch, extra snacks at gas station, things like that in general.It’s like a small leak, that often goes unnoticed that’s really causing a lot of damage, and then all of a sudden it’s a big leak, that you’ll instantly notice!  

Suddenly, firing oneself from their job becomes way more realistic. 

For all I know, it's not even necessary due to being Section 8, but haven't looked into it as I'm prickly about suddenly needing to register when I already keep my rentals in better shape than most owner-occupied people's homes, so their reasoning that landlords should pay because rentals require more attention from the city doesn't make sense to me.

Syracuse is somewhere in between those two, but is experiencing a sudden boom in values and interest thanks to Micron.

You say that your properties are currently cash-flowing nicely, the odds that your current investments are all of a sudden going to change in such a way where they will start to negatively cash-flow are astroinomical.