Some States will be  fine with them  while other  Building Dept's don't understand the product  and consider them UFO like. 

Thats fine, his choice to use substandard services.

So I take it you're having a fine time covering that and I assume Tampa is a pretty good location for that as well!

However, I wonder if anyone's been bitten by fine print which lets the insurance company walk away (after having collected all those premiums), leaving one with no protection though...

Everyone talks about doing everything passively and that is fine for a person who wants a side income or has been doing this for quite a while.

The process for underwriting, financing and managing will have a lot of carryover for a larger deal with less of the downside as you fine tune your operational skills.

The return, which is easily achieved via a good syndication, is [almost] passive and would likely cover the interest payment on your mortgage and then some.what about when all those deals went BK in the GFC  those with paid for assets were fine.. those with max debt lost trillions.. there is a certain amount of security having your home were you live paid for..

I think you'll do fine on this one. 

Although I did have a lady recently who swore up and down that she was a great tenant and everything would be fine only to have an eviction and two judgements come up.

The Real estate geared classes will usually have a 10 min plug for the marketing business, but as long as you are fine with that going in, you know what to expect.I go to both types of events because I need to know marketing basics and they transfer over to sales of all kinds.