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I did run the numbers and it seems I'd be accruing more debt with higher mortgage than currently.

Quote from @Brandon Croucier: Financing a commercial MF that runs as an STR is possible.Appraising a property based on the income is not, whos to say a buyer would STR the property. 

They were already headed to FC, so in a sense they have nothing to lose...

Quote from @Zachary Deal: @Joshua Kavadi As @Zachary Deal and Chris said, you'll need to know that not every deal is a home run or even a triple.

I was told by another investor that I will run into a seasoning problem, but i don't see how if i don't plan on refinancing.

You have to run numbers and decide after that.

Stay hyper local.As for investing in Illinois: Get your head examined.

Each corporation runs differently so some are easy to deal with and some not so much.

(LOL, likely a paid co-branding snippet and doesn't do anything for you)3) We run "X" in ads to attract buyers!