And Border Patrol was there often, with sensors on the bridge telling them when to come collect a new batch of folks. 

Should I be paying sales tax to sub contractors as owner builder, so use reseller certificate and then collect tax from ME.

Myrtle Beach and its surrounding communities - collectively known as the "Grand Strand" - have garnered a lot of attention from the investor community over the past several years. 

What if they have collections or judgments?

But if you're living on site and knocking on doors to collect rent, could work out for you. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Hide you money, drugs and valuables off site.If you do your own opens, do it for a couple of weekends.Once you have someone interested, you fill out a purchase & sale agreement, collect an EMD, open escrow, order title, verify ability to close with the buyer's lender.

Once you become more established, have a large net worth, etc. you may want to consider more sophisticated trusts that can cost you up to $45,000.

This includes everything from tenant screening, rent collection, and maintenance to managing budgets, ensuring legal compliance, and addressing tenant complaints.

I think this is the gift and the curse of a still emerging asset class (short term rentals) - as it becomes more "institutional" i.e. more like commercial real estate with more sophisticated buyers then financials and systems for this will likely become more streamlined and stable, but we are still in a place where the buyer pools are more newish investors or typically residential basic investors, so not has experienced or sophisticated evaluating investments based on a detailed financial analysis like more seasoned commercial investors likely would.anyways, just a guess on what might be going on here