This motel has been great for the last 4 years, constantly filled, my manager lives on site and gets free rent for taking care of the property, filling units and collecting rents. 

Taxes 10k HOA is 9k The current owner never did short-term rentals.

Feel free to reach out if you want to bounce ideas off someone who’s also getting their feet wet!

Please feel free reach out. 

I bought 14 houses basically for free by harvesting the equity in my houses by doing 5 cash out refis.

You won't find a great software for free or a low price.

Feel free to reach out if you want to connect, I have some people I've JV'd with in the Texas triangle.

Paid platforms often offer additional features like market analytics, off-market property leads, and filters for investor-specific criteria, giving them a leg up over free options.Exactly, most platforms have to offset cost somewhere because of how expensive it is to keep the data up to date.

Second pro is that you get to lower your living expenses or live "rent free" by having your tenants pay for your mortgage payment.

If you were able to increase the value of the property significantly after the rehab, then you could bring the deal to a community bank  to refinance and take the hard money lender out.You keep all the equity and don’t have to file a partnership return for your annual tax return, which can be costly.