This is particularly beneficial in popular tourist areas where demand for short-term lodging is high.Flexibility: Owners can choose when to rent their property, allowing them to use it personally during off-peak times.Support for Local Tourism: STRs provide a unique lodging option for tourists, helping to boost the local economy by attracting visitors who may prefer a home-like stay over traditional hotels.Diversification for Investors: STRs provide real estate investors with an additional income stream, especially if they own properties in tourist-heavy areas.Cons:Strict Regulations and Higher Fees: San Antonio recently updated its STR regulations.

In my opinion, house hacking is the easiest way to get into the RE game with the lowest money out of pocket...plus if you throw in a renovation loan like the 203k or homestyle, you can boost your worth quickly!

And, regardless of which party takes the White House, the housing shortage will not change.The only way to boost supply is for builders to significantly increase home construction.

I think it was a double whammy when the fed rate was boosted from nothing to 5-5.25 and the fed was also selling a bunch of the bonds they had bought before to drive mortgage rates down. 

Whether you’re trying to find off-market deals, build a pipeline of motivated sellers, or scale up your operations, there are some game-changing tools and methods that can seriously boost your efforts.I’m really passionate about helping others take their business to the next level, and I’ve seen firsthand how these approaches can deliver results.

If you can get a 4 unit and a basement, that would be ideal and create major cash flow and equity creation, plus you can not worry about a property manager and boost your yield.You can get a whole bunch of cheap debt which your tenants will pay down over time, massive appreciation and potential cash flow if you buy right. 

This allows you to show your ad again (at a fraction of the cost of search keyword clicks) and “remarket” to visitors who stopped by your site but didn’t convert.Remarketing is a great way to boost conversions and create the impression that your brand is “everywhere” online.And if a seller is processing various investors he is talking with, he may be swayed again to leave his details if he encounters your site again.

The moral is: you need to take the risk and just try to have way more money than you need.  

Any chance you can boost credit to 680?

You have to vet your tenants well and also I would implement other strategies like seller finance aka rent to own to boost profitability.