REI Nation has special lending partners who know how to close these deals fast—we closed in 29 days.

They focus here because the price points are much easier, laws are landlord friendly, and more importantly they have a company they're partnering with that's vertically integrated that they like and can trust with over 20 years of doing business.

Buy and occupy for 2-3 years, improve it, and sell it tax free (up to $500k if you and your partner both OO for 2 yrs) so you can move onto the next one.Starting to think team house hacking might be the primary way for folks to make this model work nowadays.

A key strategy here is to partner with a knowledgeable local GC.

Apparently Hospitable uses a public API and is not a official partner with VRBO.

Find them a deal and instead of paying you a fee, partner up with them and they will teach you their process in exchange. 

My motel was down about 60 percent in 2020 and that helped but it is never fun to right that check to my partner that never did a thing.

With your engineering background maybe partnering with someone with building or other RE experience could be valuable.

I could partner with someone and probably put close to $100k down but need to factor in $10k for first year expenses into that as well.

@David RickettsTo enter a mortgage assumption with partner funding, evaluate the mortgage's eligibility, impact of HELOC, and property condition.