I get to have an opinion as I have had Airbnbs nearby and manage Airbnbs all over the country.

Quote from @James Wise:I need to dig up a podcast that I listened to about 2 months ago with Tom Ferry, and the person was giving all the states, You are pretty close to that number on 5 days or more.. 95% range, the industry is very off kilter these days with the low activity of 2023 and 2024 that most people licensed just retired, gave up, or thought they were going to do something and never could get a sale due to bad leadership.

I’m looking to find all sorts of people to work with, contractors, agents, private lenders, staging businesses.

I subsequently disseminate educational resources without hesitation, aiming to establish myself as the leading expert in all aspects of real estate investment.By introducing passive investment—the folks who want a piece of the real estate pie but lack the time or knowledge to handle all the nitty-gritty details—I have also broken the code on attracting possible investors.

I’m usually low balling anyway, but I like using the listing agents because almost all of them give me a lot of good intel about the sellers which I leverage when I make my offers.

This is crazy generous of you to buy all the space heaters and put them in a hotel while the unit was still being heated.

If you're hesitant to take on a long-term loan do the 15 yr. loan in your name because you'll get a best rate.  

That said I would take 2 payments per month but would investigate the legal aspects like whether the lease would need to be re-written, how to structure late fees because you know they will be late and any eviction implications.

Ditto to all of the above.  85% is very doable with a strong credit score, strong dscr, but yes, the rate is going to be higher because of the higher leverage.

I grew up in the land bizz  currently building out a 75 million dollar housing project in Oregon that I own and developed  I bought the dirt  7.5 mil cash and did all the horizontal in 3 phases about 2 mil per phase for development costs ( these were bank loans) then same bank gave me vertical loans and well we are down to the last 17 houses of which I have 11 presold and closings every two weeks for the next few months ..