If you need a finer line than the flathead, use a razor utility knife.

It is common misconception that the limit is 10 conventional loans. so, folks will say will lets do a DSCR loan on this one to save a slot for a conventional loan.

Full metal stairs are always an option but that would completely blow the budget which already has a razor thin margin. 

Gambling is short-term speculative play; that's flipping,  that's Vegas slots, sports betting.

@Derek Morrison I list “typical qualifications” in my rental listing then have a specific email response to inquiries that again lists my “typical qualifications,” along with an attached application form, that if they meet those, they can request appt x day for 20-minute time slot, and I only accept applications after meeting them at the appointment.

If suddenly, you lose your job, rents decline in your area due to X/Y/Z (I know many in AZ whose STRs have plummeted, so if you underwrote your purchases on razor thin margins in the past 4 year bubble..."

I think I just need to find someone to lend me $400k that my home is worth and I'll pay them back that plus a high amount of interest in 3-6months once I sell it and move to a new place, maybe need to find a LV loan shark :) Just trying to avoid having to sell this place while living in it and having to rent it back.

I think one of the shark tank guy is invested in. 

It would be nice if there weren't so many sharks circling and it wasn't so easy to feel like you were chum in the water!

The sharks at the meetups will be obvious avoid them and build relationship with everyone else.