Personally, if your market tends toward the former condition (better/normal appreciation) I think it's a fairly safe deal looking at the long term, assuming infrastructure around you continues to support the idea of renting it.

I personally left San Diego in 2017 and bought my home in Riverside County for $155,000.

I would guess that you have little or no experience running any kind of STR, and now want to get that experience on the back of someone else's investment, with little or no personal skin in the game, and that's not a good way to build an investment portfolio.

So often i speak with flippers who put too much money on their personal cards and tank their scores.

If you have to provide negativity with your comment, then please refrain from commenting This is my personal opinion but nothing he said was negative.

This agreement is just like a listing agreement when you go list a home, you are hiring the right person for the job, so this is the same type of contract, but this person is hired to find you the right home. 

After hearing about, and personally encountering some horror stories of disagreements between homeowners and contractors, I am wanting to establish a clear contract to use with a new general contractor. 

Hello, everyone.My name is Hild R. and I'm new on Real Estate business, I used to run a small Painting LLC business with a HIC LICENSE for few years but based on personal circumstances I have to pause.

I can say my personal experience has been pretty mediocre.

My personal thesis is to avoid the HOA altogether, problem solved.RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS can still run with the land even if there is no HOA, placed on by the developer.