Even if the HOA currently allows rentals, it’s worth attending HOA meetings or reviewing their amendment history.

Never in the history of the Federal Reserve have prices gone down for any notable period of time.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history very important!

Like @Collin Hays said, it is being driven more by neighbors tired of poor STR owners not keeping things sorted.We only look for places in vacation areas with a long history of owner driven STRs vs big cities and the like.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history very important!

This is the richest country in the history of the world and there are opportunities everywhere.

When I used to have RE Broker in my title ( I still have the license just dont practice) I would get folks pinging me about Vegas about once a quarter or so and I would hand those leads to my Daughter  she made some pretty awesome connections from a few of those folks that bought multi million dollar homes..

What documents do they require, what credit scores do they allow, how do they verify previous rental history, etc.?

This is specific to this, I have the detailed 411 on this, including full background on seller, why selling, how things have gone, maintenance history and recent updates/upgrades such as the newer roof, HVAC etc etc etc... 

I'm a mother of an 8 and 11 year olds, my husband works full-time but I quit my job when we had my daughter and wanted RE investing to replace my income.