Many of them won't be convinced by facts, such as how much revenue STR's facilitate in and around Asheville, and will continue to push debunked sentiments about affordable housing, but the threat of lawsuits might make them play nicer.

I completely understand your point about pricing adjustments driving faster leases, but my experience has shown that other factors play a significant role in a rental's performance over time.For example, I own three rentals with very different dynamics:1. 

Other than that, it plays no role in and has no relevance to the mortgage acceleration scenario."

HELOCs are much tricker than a closed end second - they don't typically allow you to close in an LLC and they are full doc qualification, meaning your FICO, employment history, income, DTI etc all come into play.

@Levi Perl There are definitely a lot of factors at play here, especially considering the time of year.

It's a forced equity and appreciation play with the benefit of personal use and the hope that 100% bonus depreciation comes back.

You have to play in order to win, but if you never get in the game in the first place that in and of itself equals failure.

Again, fair play for a major business like this, but it's the old guard who have held up the forums for years, even with their technological ineptitude.

If it is a working STR, that really plays no part in the sale of the property.

Basically its a big credit card that I can now use for any business related purpose, in my case Ill use it to do more deals.So here is where the 8 unit comes into play.