Just make sure to do thorough research and fully update yourself on the changes in the local market to ensure strong rental demand and solid market data.Diversifying your investments by owning multiple properties spreads the risk and helps maintain cash flow.

What measures have you taken to ensure some safety and deter local nuisance?

Ensure you account for HELOC interest in your cash flow.

Just ensure you're transparent with the seller about the process and keep communication open. 

You need to learn to be an expert in some source of stress at finding, filtering for (a data source tool like propstream.com) or buying from a data vender who is good. 

Based on the data I was seeing in Airbnb, I can tell that the property was well located because my views and favorites in the Airbnb were significantly higher than the other properties in the areas, especially after the number of reviews increased.

If you’re close to $150,000 in AGI, a few ways you can bring that down AGI is by maxing out a 401k traditional ($23k for 2024 tax year), maxing out your HSA ($4,150 for 2024 tax year), and if you have any capital losses from stocks (up to $3k per year), I would encourage you to have great bookkeeping to ensure you’re capturing all of your deductions appropriately on your rental property.

Is anyone using Stessa and importing Airbnb transactions into Stessa? Works really well (I used the CSV option) - but the Stessa import tool does not bring in the GUEST SERVICE FEE from the Airbnb transaction. Any ide...

@Jeremy HartwigYou are missing a lot of important data, such as median income of the area, rent comps in the area, what current values are.You are buying on actuals, but in many markets that have low supply and have a lot of demand, it makes it difficult buy based on actuals.

I believe it is gathering STR data which is only partially relevant.