It's good practice in making the calculations needed to decide whether or not to pull the trigger on a potential deal.You soon learn that starting off as a Doctor is less advantageous than starting off as a Janitor, because the game presets your income and expenses based on the job title.

If your trigger point is to accumulate CF to match your original cash outlay (buy+rehab).

For Q1, I want to get out of analysis paralysis, pick a market and pull the trigger on my first STR. 

Finally decided to pull the trigger! 

Offer them owner financing - sometimes you can even have them assume the mortgage (without triggering the due on sales clause) if it is serviced by a third party.

Did you pull the trigger on one?

Before you decide to pull the trigger with any Bank/Lender make sure the they are well versed in DSCR guide lines and close more than a couple a month. 

What it will help you do is set a very high and above market GP compensation structure for deals by inflating the expenses to give the appearance of not being able to hit those numbers, only to close and reveal much better actual performance, triggering your promotes.

If that's the case I would strongly suggest building your team before pulling the trigger on an Airbnb.

This would be VA loan with 0% down so I might try to pull the trigger here on it soon.