In 2013, I completely cashed out my $430,000 401K to do just this - buy two small cabins for $280,000. 

@Chris Seveney, I can only imagine two things here:1.

VRBO bookings in that 30-day window, I would then go live with my Airbnb listing, open out the calendar a little bit further so adequate availability shows, and take advantage of it’s first week or two?

Miss a meeting or two and you're even.

I have two rentals in Augusta.

This is a numbers game so you may have to take an aggressive approach towards negotiating several deals before one of them actually works out.

If you like help structuring this deal differently to give you more leverage, let me know, I've worked with new investors on game plans and seen others start with 90% LTV on their very first deal.

.#1 NUMBERS GAME:  It's not easy.   

Probably this. california department of Real estate has already nailed two agents for raising rents above price gouging thresholds.. 10k fine plus who knows what kind of license discipline.

and were done by 100.00 incredments and by year time frames so if you wanted to know the payment on a 45k loan at 10% for 7 years you found the 10%page and then 40k ( went up to about 200k)  then the 5k the payment was spelled out and you added the two together to get the monthly payment..