I am responding as a consumer not a STR owner we had one its lasted for us for exactly one tenant then we felt it was too much work for the return  on investment we do much better loaning money and buidling new homes than to worry about people goofing up our homes :)I do have some MTR you know fully furnished homes in Vegas and those are money makers for us top of the line tneants paying double the going rate for rent.

All the add-ons are a la carte so you can definitely get a lot of value based on what you need.One thing I personally don't like is that when tenants pay rent, they are charged $1 per transaction for ACH use.

If your brother is looking to invest in real estate largely from a tax reduction standpoint they should pay a qualified real estate tax strategist to review their specific situation and what may or may not work for them. 

So they price those homes at what a willing homeowner will pay for their personal residence.

Every where you turn there are STRs going up on the market fully furnished because they couldn't pay the mortgage and bills with the rental income. 

We pay Lightning Docs a $500 annual fee and $500 per loan, which we charge to our borrowers at closing.

Is it like you sold your house and don’t have to pay for the profit?

BAM is consistently paying out monthly with Class A shares but class B shares stopped paying out almost immediately with the interest rate hikes.

The tried and true version is pulling a list of properties whether you're targeting distressed homes or high equity homes in which case you can pull on something like Propstream or Propwire, you can skip trace through them or someone like Prime Tracers which has a pay as you go system. 

Instead, he said to borrow the money from a person from Canada and pay them a dividend on the borrowed money.