Most serious and qualified tenants are searching on the major 3rd party platforms you mentioned + realtor.com, redfin, and a few others.Apartments.com & homes.com are owned by the same company and may offer some additional marketing options.Another strategy to consider here is social media - video marketing.

If you plan on purchasing your new property with a loan based on DTI, then it may be harder to qualify if you are leveraging yourself some more.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Heres the scenario:Married - Husband owns 2 properties (1 long term and 1 short term) and wife owns 2 properties (1 long term and primary residence)  in each of their own names.Husband has LLC with zero properties.

Interest rates and points are not the only criteria upon which to base a decision; length of loan, amortization and if you can get it “loan assumability” especially with no qualifying and no rate escalation could e much more important. 

From talking to locals, there's a couple of issues than need to be addressed, some are the non-ecological practices that some of those developers have, unfortunately, our government profits from this investors and allows them to destroy manglers (which are the natural water purifying system of that area) dismantling hectares of mangroves and degraded the habitat of resident and migratory species burying animals alive.There's proof of fecal material floating beneath the city of Tulum, only 20% of the water is sent to the water treatment plant, there's no infrastructure for the exponential growth.The landfills in the middle of the jungle that is leaking hazardous pollutants into the freshwater system and that something that developers won't tell you.I love my country and it would be a disaster for everybody if this place ends up like some other great beaches around the world, that are completely ruined by greedy investors not following the rules.There's no urban or comprehensive master plan, and one of the risks is that Tulum will be like Playa del Carmen is today, overgrown and with environmental devastation.I will advise doing a lot of research before getting something in Tulum, different country, different rules, and practices.

Love the idea of helping out a first time buyer, may run into trouble if she's not the primary resident, check w/ lender but I don't think that'll fly w/o more of a down payment.

You might also want to double-check if having a local property manager satisfies the city’s requirements or if the operator still needs to meet the residency rule.Good luck with your Airbnb arbitrage—Cincinnati can be a great market! 

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

The problem is, airbnb income is not considered "stable" so for qualifying purposes there isn't a way to project that accurately if there isn't any previous rental history for the property.