I will play the devil's advocate on this post since people think seller finance is great when interest rates are high.

Something between I-20 and the Westside Park/Bellwood Quarry will likely be your best bet for a speculation play. The

Play the numbers out and see where they come out.

Because you can play the Cash Flow and the appreciation game.

Maybe you could get earnest money from them.Probably the seller wants earnest money because they don't have confidence you will close the deal, so they're raising the buy in to play the game.

😉This post was placed under “Investor Psychology” for a reason…  The whole point was to get a lil’ dialogue around why so many investors are scared or overly concerned about something that would rarely come into play - the due on sale clause. 

In theory, given that The Dominican Republic has a well-established short-term rental industry with an abundance of property managers, you'd expect that any owner who doesn't know how to properly play the STR game would hire a property manager.

I think you just tell it: "Alexa, play the BiggerPockets Podcast"

Weird.It's good therefore that you can still play the game, and stick it to Lenders.Does your primary have insufficient equity? 

I am not trying to play the system and I will absolutely be occupying the property for at least 3 years.