There are some other strategies where you can collateralize equity with a portfolio loan or use a private lender, but typically these are better suited to portfolios of several properties.Charleston has a very active investor community - several meetups for different groups each month and active social media groups/pages.

@Calum ShallenbergerRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Long story short - you cant just take the current effective tax rate and apply it linearly to the new price - there are fixed and variable components of property taxes so it wont scale like that. 

@Federico SarcinaRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

This is not great compared to areas like Gary Indiana where rent is $1500 on a place costing $100k but the social advantage makes me feel better as less investors are willing take lower profits (less land lord competition) - and I know the returns will come in equity in the areas I want to invest.So the core questions - 1. would DSCR work well for me?

@Marcos De la CruzRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

That means more expensive and less profitable and, personally, I wouldn't invest there because of the sargassum issue but you might care less about it because of the lifestyle component in your case.4.

I don't know if I agree with your philosophy about maintaining some components and others not.

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I like the operating-holding strategy, but the only side of that which is simple is the operating component.