During the time deployed (last 4 yrs), I rented the home.  

If you can get the first month, last month, and a deposit, even better.

Or, plan on this being a nest egg builder and growing your equity, living in the home for 2 of the last 5 years and then selling with Section 121 exclusion. 

It seems a traditional sale gobbles up half of it in closing costs.We refinanced early last year, and another refi would cost ~$5k, plus w/ the LTV, I don't think the numbers work out just right.Too bad we were too naive to even consider those offers when they were handed to us.

Forget the lease type that the last owner used...just give the notice. 

STR is a bit weird because the Covid travel demand pushed the price hardcore for the last few years. 

lastly I think the sellers in these areas are far more sophisticated than inner city rust belt property owners about values..

But tuned out to be a pretty nice profit deal for us about 650 to 700k net in less than a year.the lady got her home back free and clear and I told her do not Borrow against it ever again her kids had forced her into last time and of course took the money themselves.

This is how much you need to increase your room rate to become profitable based on last year's information.

Much of my career for the last decade has been in Cybersecurity, and we feel the same about DOJ and regulations around incidents.