I have my (low maintenance)demographic that I prefer to cater to.

But since that time I left my corporate job, moved states, my daughter was born and is now 6 months old, and I began investing in a new city.

A FHA 203k Loan is where the purchase price and rehab costs are rolled into a single loan.Assuming you have a respectable FICO you can buy, with a FHA Loan (3-5% down, a 30 year amortization schedule, and a residential loan rate) AND because you closed personally, you will not have Asset Protection, in the form of closing in the name of a LLC/ LLC taxed as an S Corp, or an S Corp.

I understand the appeal of the E2 visa route, and there are indeed a few franchises that cater to that niche.

If we let the hotel corporations do all the talking while we remain in the shadows, it does nothing to help the STR world! 

Technically it would be best to get a C Corporate or S Corp. to flip properties and since you are considered a dealer if you do several properties a year and this could have negative tax consequences in an LLC.

My markup is always lower than the original lender's because I don't spend money advertising during the Super Bowl, my president doesn't have a corporate jet, and we don't have layers of management we need to pay.

This is some of the most desirable and difficult to develop real estate in the country, owned and operated by many of the most powerful and affluent individuals and corporations on earth.

Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships and trusts must be represented by an attorney you cannot represent yourself.

I've done corporate relo a handful of times.