I'm looking at investing in a short term rental in Jacksonville, my budget is fairly modest though, up to $300k so I'm not looking to do a high-end STR.

I have great tenants, because I refuse to buy a property I wouldn’t be willing to live in myself.

Buy, even if you don't plan on staying in that 1st house in Cleveland permanently you can just use an FHA loan live there for a year and turn it into a rental afterwards.

While I live in Idaho, I am interested and willing to expand.Fix n Flips create my cashflow so I can rent to retire.

Just in this thread I'm seeing a lot of people who are setting up their listings in a similar way so that the Airbnb brand account could live-on with the property. 

Equity paydown and modest appreciation would result in a small profit; not enough to justify a non passive investment but i will own a killer cabin.  

The guy who claims he is the country's biggest wholesaler and has a "community" says in his video from yesterday Dec 31 (search #251 Wholesale Hotline | LIVE Real Estate Investing Q&A if interested in his "technique"  start at 0:39:00 that the most recent transaction he did Was bailing out a guy in foreclosureGuru "bought" the house for $375,000 from the guy in foreclosureSold it back to them for $498,000 with a 6 month buy back option periodSeller had to give him $20,000 for the optionSo, guru will make about $148,000 on the transaction "Never been to the house, never had to lift a finger""No renovation, the guy is still in the house"Is this the kind of thing the new Oregon law is intended to address? 

I really believe that we live in a time where all the information you need to do just about anything is available for free online.

I know in your city of Denver you can't host unless you live on the property but of course there are ways around that. 

- what if someone is occupying the living areas more than someone else and it causes an issue?