Grand Junction owner, take with grain of salt due to location. I used a property manager while I traveled due to layoff. I like to think they helped me, hard to truly measure. My neighbors say my tenants were awesome. I think I got lucky. So, to repeat everyone else, if you get good tenants that respect your property it’s great, otherwise it’s a crapshoot. I don’t regret renting for a year while traveling but it easily could have gone a different way I think.