You're off to an amazing start, the hardest part is securing that first deal and it seems you are on your way congrats!

However, the hard part is the expensive bay area entry price - even with the VA loan, it's still difficult to find places that makes sense for both while we house hack and when it's turned into investment property if we move.

It's now been 17 days since the sale, we're three days away from the deadline, the email thread with all parties keeps getting longer, but the situation is still not resolved.

You need to get it on your local MLS, which then feeds to all third party sites like Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, Realtor, etc.

Short term is managing cleaners, dealing with guests complaining about cleaners, random **** breaking, reporting damages do Airbnb, seeing a big *** party starting at your house at midnight (your property manager isn’t on call 24/7 and are charging for every hour spent), dealing with pissed off neighbors etc.You need to weigh all those costs (management + cleaners stack) minus potential high weekday vacancy minus Airbnb’s rising fees and declining service plus your time and headache spent, VS an easy / much more guaranteed paycheck.There’s a lot of guru BS in the STR game.

Costs are adding up really fast.I work with a third party company that tries to get the best deals from various insurances they work with but Im noticing premiums are increasing with each new policy I add.

If you get caught up in a legal dispute involving multiple defendants and your exposure is minimal or even nonexistent, plaintiffs and some judges are going to frame the case to target you instead of the responsible party because you are the one with the deep pockets.

@Michael CampbellCounty tax office records or recorders officeIf it’s bank owned you will have to wait until their asset management company (3rd party) lists it for sale or attempts to auction it off on a site like auction.com etc

-When I asked for him to wire the money back to me via a 3rd party (like a title company) he refused.

A security camera system outside can make you money by allowing you to charge for pets, prove someone was the party who did the damage, more people than on the lease.