I have always heard of the danger of a dual agent situation and understand why it's not ideal.

It looked like a dangerous footing situation to be on the roof but the chimney came down to about chest height that way.

I'm in the Western White Mountain Region in New Hampshire if you decide to do stuff up here, I know enough about STR to be dangerous

@Henry T.Sorry but I don’t agree - this is like saying lawnmowers are dangerous because 75 people per year die from them.

Austin’s explosive growth and rapid appreciation certainly created unique challenges, but it’s interesting to see the city still holding strong on demand, especially with so much new supply.

@William Coet it’s a different business model altogether.I love highly desirable areas that attract highly skilled high income college educated workforces.They tend to be more liberal and therefore the landlord tenant laws.The percent of their income that goes to rent is typically much less than 20% so a rental increase of 5-10% is nothing to them.They are typically lower cap rate areas and therefore every dollar of net operating income that is earned is explosive to the underlying asset value.

That is a dangerous game to play with students.

However, as I look at today’s market, I see that the conditions that allowed for explosive growth back then have changed.

Horrible idea for many reasons...1) Without a decent down payment ~20%, it's very unlikely you'll cashflow after all expenses 2) Sounds like this would be a highly leveraged property - high leverage when rates are high is a dangerous game to play.

Dangerously misleading title of an otherwise good post."