Vrbo and Airbnb do not play around when they see you taking direct bookings from guests who found you through their platforms. 

Its comical how few people understand how luck in a particular economic cycle plays into their successes. 

Several factors at play: the sales market has been slow so many would-be sellers are converting houses they can’t sell to rentals, lots of new construction units have been completed recently, and in-migration has slowed down a bit.

The first loan applications we entered to the portal had errors, but could not be deleted, even by staff, and could only be labeled, literally, as dead.

Is this a cash-flow play or an apprecation play?

The interest tracing rules come into play for debt financed distributions.

Allow things to play out, unless the buyer closes sooner.

Allow things to play out, unless the buyer closes sooner.

Generally speaking, Boston proper is an appreciation market (low cap rates) unless you have a solid value-add play.

I do mid term rentals during my STR dead season(3 month period) and the furniture gets beat up.