If the departing primary residence will cashflow as a rental property, your DTI will be fine once it is correctly calculated, but your current go-to lender might not be fine when she or he learns that you ditched them for an investor-friendly lender that knows how to do basic REI DTI mortgage math. :)

That should be an absolute Hail Mary last ditch effort to get someone out .

I wouldn't ditch an otherwise good deal on a property.

The chemicals were $400, and I essentially dug a 12 inch ditch all the way around the perimeter and dumped them in.

So I'm going to avoid telling you that you shouldn't have driven into the ditch, and focus on helping you get out of the ditch.I'd give the deposit back and get rid of the problem on my shoulder.

It certainly is a good one, because it's not very invloved, but why would you ditch buy&hold?

Now according to the FEMA FIRM, this ditch and the land adjacent (the 2 houses described above) are in the 100-year floodplain (which i think is ridiculous bc we've had several floods exceeding the 100-year in my life and it has never over-topped...there are steep embankments on either side that help with flood conveyance).So, the neighbor is looking to sell off market and has given me the chance to offer. 

I viewed it as a last ditch effort to strike an ego cord and call me out for not really wanting to get involved in RE.

They do not help you other than help lighten your wallet of your money, then ditch you.

Once I have the majority of my bookings coming direct, I can then ditch the subscription model and just go pay per booking with VRBO, and not be too dependent on them or AirBNB.