I recently learned that income earned through Airbnb often doesn’t qualify as eligible income when applying for a second mortgage.For those of you who’ve used Airbnb as part of your house hacking approach, how did you navigate this issue?

The only “control” an investor has when he invests in REITS, (or any stocks for that matter), mutual funds, real estate syndications, whether debt or equity, or minority shares in a business, is whether to keep or to sell his investment, and often not even that.  

Making millions a year and often paying $0 in taxes.Short Term Rentals supercharge this:RE pros use cost segregation and bonus depreciation combined with leverage to create massive losses with minimal cash.Combined with 1031s and snowballing, you create a business that never pays tax.

That makes it financially viable, even if they had to spend 5k in marketing to find it.Higher price point FSBO are often problematic to deal with.

Somewhere in the middle may be an LTR owner who is used to doing the hard work of tenant selection, routine maintenance, and rent collection.If that owner is used to doing all of that work to receive their monthly rent, would it be appealing to enter into a business-to-business lease with an MTR arbitrage operator?

In my opinion, TXTing takes out more from you then actually bringing in - It often feels like a constant game of cat and mouse with phone carriers.

As you do this more often, you'll be able to keep a spreadsheet of per square foot prices for materials and labor to get things done and you'll be able to estimate this yourself.

You often only have to worry about tax upon the profitable sale of an asset. 

If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?

And, to your point, often times the property is already rented so a showing wouldn't be feasible.