We are a curated marketplace for investment properties.

My first recommendation for new investors on the forums is to carefully curate your keyword alerts.

We also curated the lightings, choosing interesting and unique pieces, which again is not normal but, in my opinion, help sell the property.

The Fannie Mae guidelines for curation of self-employment are here and Freddie Mac's are here. 

It's common that people bring up travel nurses and insurance placements, but in the DMV are there any other occupations or scenarios that could an MTR could curate towards.

I've done some research on local banks that offer HELOCs in San Diego and seems like the best options may be either Mission Fed, SDCCU, or US Bank:https://www.missionfed.com/Home-Equity-Line-of-Credithttps://www.sdccu.com/CURates/EquityLineandLoanRates.pdfhttps://www.usbank.com/home-loans/home-equity/home-equity-line-of-credit.htmlDoes anyone have any advise on which option to proceed with (either based on numbers or personal experience in SD) or another local option that I'm missing?

In fact I might actually pop for Pro membership if it included access to a secret forum where its just curated links to all the duke-em-outs that happen sometimes on here.

But so far no lender able to beat my local CU rate of 4.65 :-)

Some people create an "Instagram wall" in their STR so people can take photos and then post them on social media along with a hashtag curated to the property. 

Here is what you should do immediately:1-  Pay for professional photography ($150-250) 2-  Spend $1,000 on curating the space with plants, wall art, decor3-  Fire management - You can easily manage 1 listing yourself as long as A.)