Day trips to the lakes versus overnights makes a lot of sense.

What are the pros and cons of using a Land Trust versus an LLC for investment properties?

If you can't find a single review, that may be a sign; albeit, some smaller lenders with their own fund or private money may not have a ton of reviews versus the bigger lenders.

@Carl TrubLots of legal and tax implications - you should look at having them put the home in a living trust.I am not an attorney but there are ways to make it so your cost basis is today's value versus a lower value such as if you buy it at a low cost.

If you get up to 30,000 envelopes per month and do it in house for an average cost of 37.5 cents versus outsourcing it for 61cents (Click2Mail.com price) you'll be saving over $7,000 per month.

Your only real question here is how much additional equity can you earn before you sell before the rate resets and before you lose your capital gains exclusion, versus the opportunity costs if you sold and cashed out now.

We love that our guests are almost always repeat visitors, making the AirBnB feel like an extension of our home versus a true commercial business.

Are there restrictions on credit reporting for CFDs versus mortgages/DOTs.

I think there's potentially a different feeling when you convert a personal residence to such an investment property versus purposefully buying an investment property. 

For example, for rental properties, lots of the categorization depends on the REI's specific tax strategy regarding what we're capitalizing versus what we're immediately deducting.