Same is true for home inspectors.

While it is totally true you can make it own your own, the question becomes can you afford to (cost of mistakes), how fast are you looking to move without guidance/connections, and do you value being in a community with like-minded people actually making it happen?

This is also true if you have DSCR loans that do not report on your personal credit.  

While it's true that locking in rates for a longer term can seem counterintuitive during steep yield curve normalization, you can remove prepayment penalty altogether if you are comfortable with a higher interest rate.

Even if the bias isn’t political or socio economic, writers NEED something to write about, and if there’s no new and thought provoking change in lifestyles, let’s promote one we want to be true.  

You’re assuming I didn’t ask the right questions and I went with the cheapest which isn’t true at all.

But I expect that’s true in a lot of markets.

Those are the true prizes.

This leaves the other options I mentioned -> STR that meet IRS requirements and #3 from the list of material participation above, but it will be tough to prove that no one other individual spends more time than you do since this is probably not true. ...

You are going to have an issue with it being a true log home.