I can speak from experience as a student at Texas A&M, I lived in a 5 br/5 b house and I knew plenty of other students who lived in similar houses or "Ag Shacks" if you will.

If the property is vacant, you will attract a larger pool of buyers as not everyone looking for a house wants to use it as a rental.

As a bonus when you sign up you also get an e-book that has tips to running your wholesaling business.We normally pull 50k+ list when we do our monthly campaigns of cold calling.

Own and just keep it as a rental longterm/short term rental?

Even still, it could be said that I've still lost money due to my time on the tools instead of prospecting as a real estate agent (the cost of lost opportunity).If you can truly do 80%-90% of the work yourself (at acceptable quality levels) and you aren't sacrificing your time where you can get better returns for your efforts, then yes, it can work even up here in Canada.

In light of this, I have been exploring the possibility of pursuing creative finance options, specifically seller finance deals, as a potential means to achieve my goals.

Don't attempt to figure things out on your own or act as a GC or PM when you are using other people's money. 

Then as a REO property, she knows that she can slip through the system for a long time and she's stops paying rent to the bank.

Is the property set up as a STR already or do you need to do the basic work to get it started?

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