The main thing I would look for is breadth of underwriting guidelines and customer service.

If you told him you have been playing pickup games for the past year and need help improving your jump shot, now he has evidence you're motivated and a specific goal he can quickly help you work towards.

I do know that the pricing varies based on the unit count as well as what level you sign up for; but overall, it's super user-friendly for tenants, PM's & owners.Plus they're always updating their software and adding new automation features to make everything so simple as well as well as great customer support. 

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Basically you need to be able to pay a large part of a long-term (multi-year) lease up-front, then still have some cash for renovation and interior/furniture, to finally recoup the investment through STR and a hopefully very quick way.

You can also attempt some sort of bill back like RUBs but that can get complicated quickly. 

Property flipping tends to yield higher short-term returns, allowing you to build up capital more quickly.

If you have a plain jane property, you are better off learning how to get repeat customers and partner with local businesses.

An old college friend and I have decided to partner together to BRRRR properties out of state in order to grow as quickly as possible.

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