Now, you don't need hundreds, or even A hundred clients to achieve your goals.

Focus on fundamentals: buy below market value, have strong cash flow (or a clear path to creating it), and maintain sufficient reserves to weather any unexpected challenges.If you’re strategic and stay patient, this market could create opportunities that lay the groundwork for long-term success.

It seems like there's some confusion between the asset protection one would want to achieve by ensuring that personal and business funds are never commingled vs. the BMP of separating deposits to ensure they are available to the tenant when due.

Anyone out there running a successful short term rental in the area?

While these deals were successful, I realized that the cost of using hard money significantly ate into my profits.

Besides the places you mentioned Facebook, Zillow, VRBO, and Craigslist are other places that can be successful for MTR leads.

I am curious if anyone has had any success using this product.  

I would caution you not to necessarily expect your NOI to be higher because you achieve higher rents leasing units to Section 8 tenants.

—will be key to success!!

My husband and I purchased our first Costa Rica property last year and were advised by our agent that in almost 6 years of working in that market he had only ever seen 1 American Couple successfully obtain a mortgage in Costa Rica and it was from Scotia Bank.