You do this by knocking on doors and meeting your new tenants, who will probably not be ecstatic to meet you, an unknown quantity. 

Do not go into a rehab property without knowing what needs to be done as well as excess capital for the unknown.

This will be my first property, so there's also a lot of other unknowns!

I asked from locals aboout their experience with vacasa and all are good things but the numbers are unknown from their persepctives. 

It’s prepping for the unknowns and unexpecteds that make an agent necessary.

Since this is probably not a good idea for many known and unknown reasons, we will nix the idea and she will likely rent a room from a friend for just $350.00 per month and we will either rent this house to another tenant or just sell it.

Getting a HELOC first as a distinct transaction will of course take time, which is why I had to "assume" that rates will just remain exactly flat.Of course rates could drop 0.75% between now and when the HELOC is hypothetically done, washing out that 0.375%, but that's unknown and unknowable.

This is my first property so I'm trying to reduce some of the unknowns.

Eventually the flow of the mortgage notes will regain some normalcy, but the timing and underlying fundamentals at that time are the big unknown.

The value of a depreciating asset producing no revenue and unknown future production of revenue and profit is low.