Maybe you're in limbo renting for a year while the primary residence gets built.

Quote from @Aaron Provencal: Investment Info:Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

I have looked at Hopatcong however despite allowing STRs, it has language that requires the STR to be the principal residence of the owner as indicated by something such as a diver's license.

In the process of refinancing to a permanent loan.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Dallas.

As someone who has read Harry Potter, it seems the best way to get the attention of the landlord is to send a scary looking giant to their home residence with a kindly worded letter.More seriously, I was on the other side of the coin previously where my wife put the ads up under her accounts instead of mine, so I couldn't check them without getting on her phone and I was inundated with people looking to see the property (probably 50 over a 5 day period) and was trying to send semi-personalized notes to each one--and it all ended up being too much to handle and I ended up ghosting or not replying to many people after I found an applicant. 

The helical piers system would cost $25k but is a permanent solution.

Investment Info:Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

So you may not NEED a lease signed for your primary residence already, especially since that's a lot of stress to find a new tenant and have a lease in place while you're under contract on another home.