For one, if you have any properties with conventional loans on them, this makes things much more complicated and severely limits your ability to limit your liabilities.

The husband accepted this lien from Veterans Affairs while being ill-equipped to do so due to his severe PTSD.

There are several two-family homes near Lindenhurst, Bay Shore, and West Babylon. 

I've built several homes in the area and stopped targeting that zip code entirely several years ago.

I think you need to weary about several other aspects with an STR. 

He also did a very superficial rehab job, so we spent several thousands more on the unit when the new PM took over.

One of several websites he has is https://www.slowflips.com/   There are private groups for those willing to pay for the advanced training that is offered.   

I work with several builders around the Dallas and North Texas markets.

Most of the first page now seems like its sponsored ads so I typically will go several pages deep when researching something.

The only way you can break that log jam right now is severely lowered fed rates, but the level of federal debt is such that they're in a no-win situation because there's going to be little appetite these days for buying 1% fed notes from overseas.The fed rates were kept too low for too long.