Looking forward to hearing about your progress!

The seminal book on the strategy, 30-Day Stay, published here on BiggerPockets and written by MTR pioneering investors Sarah Weaver and Zeona McIntyre, has helped popularize the method.

I’ve been doing a ton of research on it as I’ve been looking at Italy myself so I have been focused on the less densely populated but still very popular travel spots like Tuscany outside of Florence and Sicily though I’m nervous about Sicily and their major drought issues.

I have been extremely satisfied with the way all the deals have progressed so far.  

Keep progressing forward, while narrowing down your asset type considerations, market, and your other macros.

Let me explain that better, imagine your rehab is $100k, you would need to do part of the rehab, maybe $10k, and then you can get the funds for those first $10k reimbursed so you can keep progressing with the rehab.Given your experience, I would recommend you start with a moderate or light rehab, mostly cosmetic work so that you can do it yourself and won't get your profit decreased by hiring third parties.

Definitely the most popular places are midwest and southeast.

I believe in progress based on solid fundamentals and experience.

Congrats on saving up that's an amazing start.I would suggest holding off on flipping if you don't want to do it near you, although with $250k, you probably could find something even in California that you could flip, we hear horror stories from our clients all the time of how they hired a contractor but were not able to watch progress and fly in 2 months later to see almost no work done and most of the money spent.  

Looking forward to hearing more about your progress!