If you buy an EV, you have a large battery sitting in your garage that can be used to power your home in an emergency.

Use less of that and either get the seller to buy down your interest rate or you can do it and have a comfortable mortgage payment and still plenty left for your emergency fund.

Consider emerging Sunbelt markets like Phoenix, Tampa, or parts of North Carolina (like Raleigh or Charlotte) that continue to see high migration and job growth, driving both appreciation and rental demand.

- We have a maintenance emergency hotline that transcribes voceimails and texts to whomever is on call.

Build an emergency fund to cover unexpected costs, and ensure you can manage the mortgage without STR income if needed.

Property owners can file for an emergency court hearing, significantly reducing the time required to remove squatters.

I often give guidelines to my tenants about what defines and emergency, what is not an emergency, and the the timeline to expect emergency vs non-emergency things to be handled. 

Under $150, easy to install and use, tenant can set their own code but landlord can retain the master and always have access, tenant can't lock themselves out, standard key for emergency backup, batteries last a couple years, etc.

Failing to follow proper procedures will cause even more delays.  

.- Syndicator intimidates investor (who just lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars investing with said syndicator) with legal threat- Terrified LP, already having lost money, now is scared that wealthy syndicator could ruin them, and asks me to remove the forum post discussing the companyWhile I am in no position to verify the truth or falsity of claims made on these forums by LPs or GPs, to me, it seems like a special hell is emerging for investors where the following reality is possible:- Invest tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars with a syndicator- Lose all or most of this investment- Get ghosted/poor communication from sponsor- When they complain or ask for help, get threatened with legal actionI told the person with the original post the following: - Name the syndicator, and I will publicly call them out for their threat, if they confirm who it is.