Hello, Im hoping to get some inside on a particular situation that has been presented to me. We have a house in the neighborhood who's owner recently passed. Her caretaker has decided to take over the property and is ...

The goal is to keep these for rentals.I currently own the land personally and am funding the builds with a combination of HELOC and cash - no bank debt tied to these properties specifically.

I'm also looking to get my hands on a good calculator for short term rentals since I'm terrible with Excel and only have a calculator for long term rentals that I know is missing sections that are specific to short term.Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated :) BiggerPockets has an Airbnb calculator, and I see that you're a pro member.Since you've read the STR book and done other education, you know HOW to pick a market lol.

Did you have specific questions or comments?

Hi all - I'm a new STR host and I recently had my first bad guest experience and have some questions about damage protection and guest verification on VRBO specifically.

I think you need to be more specific.

If you're targeting a specific market, I suggest connecting with local investors through meetups. 

If you want to be a passive investor, you need capital, information and a network, but you don't need specific advantage in real estate.  

Have you ever seen rents actually go lower (I'd assume this would only happen if occupancy dropped significantly, but that seems like something that could happen in a recession).Also a BAM specific question/concern - from what I understand they are based in Indiana, and I see in their current open offering one of the properties is in Indiana (great) but I'm wondering why the other property is in Arkansas? 

Cleaner is paid a fixed rate for a specific job, you are paid a % of revenue.