This can affect your cash flow and requires careful financial planning.Competition: Popular vacation areas often have high competition for rental properties, which can impact occupancy rates and rental prices.

For the four-plex, if you're thinking about taking out a new 5% conventional loan, be careful to review the loan criteria as they could also have occupancy limits.Renting Out Your Current Primary house: One popular way to make extra money in Charlotte is to rent out your current primary house.

This was a question I asked when I my interest was peaked year ago.A great book I would reccomend, available on audible you can listen to...The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and low) Money Down.It will lay out many of the strategies that beginners and even successful investors utilize to invest in real estate.A popular strategy of many of investors involves investing with OPM (Other Peoples Money), myself included.

I've been an agent for 10 years. we also do 3 story triplex on infill lots in columbus and that's been a very popular and of interest of people. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/short-term-rental-loans-a...DSCR Loans: Terms to Know When Working With These Popular Rental Loanhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/dscr-loans-terms-to-knowWhat’s Next For DSCR Loans?

They're popular for a reason. 

This week I purchased three Moke vehicles, they are the small diesel cars popular around the Bahamas and the Caribbean that some of you may remember from one of the old 007 movies.  

Perhaps your friend ran into this limitation of using conventional financing and had to covert to the popular DSCR loan which only focuses on the property.

They're surprisingly popular rentals in the off season.  

Also a popular investment right now is in a community called Angeline nearby, it's going to have a lagoon, school, as well as a Moffit Cancer center.