If it's currently zoned for mixed-use, you want to check with the town on what can be done there before deciding what to do.

Prices still attractive, but town growing that way. 

Many college towns have an unrelated persons ordinance.

First step would be to talk to the controlling government body about what you can do with it.

Well, most of those OTAs have a bunch of premiere partners and still have plenty of limitations on what exactly can be controlled via API and whatnot, so that's not really saying a lot.Doubly worrisome is that there are almost no hands on reviews of Hostaway, and any time the name comes up on BP or Facebook groups there are suddenly a dozen new "users" whose first and only post ever is to talk about how great Hostaway is, without providing any details. 

Hi I would love to connect with more investors in the St Louis Dutch Town Area :)

Bought a property for 30 K in a town about 2 1/2 hours from here that I thought surely I could sell it for 35K or 40.

Control everything but own nothing. 

No rent control. 

In-house means more control—you’ll manage everything from printing and stuffing envelopes to postage.