Quote from @Brian Burke: @Chris Seveney when I started my lending company with two partners our aim was to go from $0 to $2.5M per month. 

I feel like it's a space where great operators can really clean up, since the bar is set really low, in my experience at least.

Living close to Cal State Long Beach I envision down the road renting to a student so nothing fancy needed, but I could still produce a very clean and nice bright unit.  

Assuming this is a clean file, with no exceptions required, most Underwriters take anywhere from 48-72 hours to review a loan and get CTC, or provide further conditions. 

. - Prices are too high- Prices are falling- Interest rates are too high- My Cousins, Mothers, Sister told me that Real Estate is too riskyThere’s never a “perfect” time, but everyone wishes that they started sooner.

its unfortunately not going to be as easy as googling, but that might get you a list to start with and refine.  

They have to keep nose clean, there now in the system, tax's and all regular everything.

My wife and I are starting our journey with our first STR and I wanted to ask: Should we use an LLC for our Airbnb, or would an umbrella policy on top of our current insurance policy suffice?

For example, to get up-to-date property tax data you would need to scrape every county's tax data website (thousands of different websites, data formats, issues, etc...) then aggregate and clean the data.

By all means give them a note on how to use all of the appliances (eg clean out the lint trap on the drier after each load, do not use dish soap in a dishwasher, change the furnace filter regularly, etc).