You'll definitely want to do your own shopping and due diligence.There is a lot more to this and you'll definitely want to invest time and resources to creating and improving your internal systems.

There is no one stop shop for all STR info.AirDNA has some advantages but can be skewed pretty far off.If you know where you want to look, just hit up AirBNB and VRBO and see what others units are bringing in, their nightly rate and occupancy.

I got so tired with our industry keeping people out when there are more than enough projects for everyone.I’ve developed hundreds of CVS and family dollar stores across the US along with the shopping centers, industrial parks, and housing.  

HEB, Walmart, Costco, shopping mall etc. are all within 10 min driving distance.

There is no FHA 3.5% down on an apartment building or a shopping enter, there's lots of gov't incentives for "everyone to own a home" and since 1-4 units residential are all considered "single family" homes that means young investors get to ride that gravy chain for up to 4 units, but nothing like that exists for CRE (the gov't backed CRE mortgage options require MORE experience than traditional/vanilla commercial mortgages).Let me know if I can help.

It's got a village like feel with locally owned shops and eateries.

My insurance agent often does an adequate job.That sentance alone tells me I should shop around agents/providers, but what is the easiest/most effective way to do that?

So it looks like if your shopping at a multiplier of median home prices, yup, that inventory is finally not below the threshold for shortage.... by 0.2mnths supply....

The policy is coming up for renewal and I tried shopping around and have been told that either it is not insurable due to an old type of wiring or it will cost 100% more for the policy than I have now.I tried to do a cash out refi and was told there isn’t any equity to take out.

Starting next year, I’d like to use the property as a primary residence, but I’m trying to take advantage of bonus depreciation running it as STR for remainder of the year and take the paper loss against my spouse’s w2 income.