Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Crowley.

Staying on track with timelines was crucial to avoid unnecessary holding costs.

If you can just make sure you are buying right, everything else falls into place eventually.There are markets that perform better than others, but unless you are holding long-term or building rentals, you shouldn't really care too much since flipping is all about buying at the right price for that market:

One of my favorite authors, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, sold me on the concept of Skin in the Game and holding all pundits accountable for prior predictions, myself included. 

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

@Ben Cochran I hope you have factored STR tax savings into your cashflow and ROI as it can be significant.Leveraging equity to purchase a short-term rental (STR) in Tampa Bay can diversify your portfolio and potentially generate strong cash flow, but it also increases your financial risk.While your properties hold significant equity, adding debt from HELOCs or a DSCR loan could strain your finances if STR performance fluctuates or costs rise.

Magistrates tend to have long memories and also tend to hold grudges against local incompetent landlords.So if he wakes up and talks to someone with any brains and experience, this won't go to court, but he'll start looking for another excuse to get rid of you, something much easier to argue in court.

However, in such a case, a rescue fund would hold a superior position in the capital structure compared to the common equity investors, including yourselves and there acting as a parasite taking equity upside from all common equity investors.While this might provide a safer position for the pref equity slash rescue fund, it would also significantly impact the returns for common equity investors (previous guys).

I started with a Michigan LLC/LP entity set up to hold the properties.

It depends on how long you plan on holding the property for.