And short periods of time generally expose the investor to lots of extra risks including execution risk, refinance risk, interest rate risk, etc.

But, you’re dealing with commercial funding anyway, for a little extra work and a few hundred dollars, doesn’t it seem like a good investment?

@Chiane Martin the biggest challenge to doing Boarding Houses successfully is investing the required extra time.LTR - take the least amount of time, but time required increases as you go from Class A, to B, to C, to D.MTR - take more time than LTRSTR - take more time than MTRBoarding House - can take an insane amount of time to manage!

In this investment, I am not seeing a reward for that extra risk you would be taking...

Hey @Eddie Hincewicz, just an FYI, I did an extensive survey of a bunch of lenders and none of them would lend more on an operating STR vs a similar home.That does include if they have a permit.So anyone looking to buy, they would have to come up with the extra cash if the owner wants to charge more than the comps support.

hello-q: i hope that you have quite the plethora in information about the decide to..build a square space (office like in function) right next to house-to have "reason space" to work from home ('i am forced to work from home bcs of having parent who survives a stroke-cared for on/in house property, bcs putting her instead in assisted living-wouldn't be more affordable/feasable, and many states (california being one) are willing to help loved one(s) to age/stay in place as reason to build these extra spaces in/on property..putting her in the situation as more benefitting i am researching the state orgs to find out what to do=being as stellar the careful/accurate as i can with gathering as to what to do..including the obtain of funding per any grants.and trusting that having your consultation has us getting away from issue/noise over just purchasing/happenstance model in default assisted: residential (multi bed home stead-with all the red tape & fees/tax justify better?

@Colleen Barone this has so many layers on it but read this post on seasoning HERE and this post (at least the first section) HERE. 

We can talk about the benefits of code compliance forever but, I gave extra latitude to an owner making his choices.

The only challenge we ran into was the tenant needed an extra week to vacate the property, also this occurred during the 4th of July holiday so a little stress but the property had to be delivered vacant so we made sure that happened.

Lots of times, because the loan amount is so small, they will charge extra points to pad their fee.