If you walked into a bank, your pre-approval would likely never qualify for a house hack duplex.Did they count 75% of the expected rent towards your DTI? 

Traditional bank loans can be slow and have strict requirements, while hard money and private lending seem to offer more flexibility.For those who’ve secured funding before, what’s been your experience?

You put $287k in the bank and earn $14k/yr.

Please stop telling new STR hosts to only list on one platform.  

There are also additional costs of operating and maintaining an LLC, like separate bank accounts, annual report filings, tax filings, etc.2.

In addition, you want a separate bank account for the rental property to separate it from your personal accounts.

I cannot fathom having a MTR that required the family we are hosting to setup their own utilities. 

I am going to start a company website to host the pictures and provide a little explanation of what we did. 

Would a bank even allow us to mortgage multiple buildings on a single lot without it being subdivided?

We have a 3% rate so dont want to refi but the property has appreciated quite a bit so would like to tap into that equity to fund our next deal.I am having some trouble finding lenders that offer helocs on investment properties.Does anyone know of any banks and/or lenders that do helocs on investments?