While possible to do after you have many properties where it can be paid off quickly I would not recommend doing it out front. using this method to circumvent saving cash will only lead to over leverage and a false feeling of investing to slow you down later  

Your lack of concern for what your lack of knowledge can do to them, hiding behind the false narrative that you are helping them with your "investment strategy" is going to land you in hot water some day.You don't need to justify your actions to me but let's just hope you don't get put in front of a judge to justify them to the courts.

Unfortunately, due to this false impression, dubious legislation that will hurt small and mid-sized investors (and thereby the cities they invest and renovate houses in) has been introduced.

In summary, if your goals are still similar to what they were when you bought, the location has potential, better vetting of tenants will avoid evictions, etc. it would make sense to keep the property and see if it can live up to the potential you expected when you bought it.If you think you had false expectations or don't see a probability of recovery, I would also do the renovation and then sell.

There are loans that have been in loan modification, or bankruptcy, or probate or divorce or in litigation, or falsely conveyed.

Also for everyone who says the internet will pick up the slack, who didn't waste a bunch of time tracking down false leads (houses that sold months ago) on Zillow when it first came out.Living overseas I will continue to rely on buyer's agent to represent me but I'm curious to see how this goes.

They will then most likely retaliate:(-Also, many towing companies will NOT tow a vehicle without someone there representing the property owner (they don't want to get sued for falsely towing someone's vehicle).

To me, this is more about false expectations than it is any Airbnb failing.I still scratch my head when I hear people talk about Airbnb failing them simply because they didn't instantly start clearing $1,000/mo.  

Someone will point out that the 2-4 unit have a better track record of appreciation these past few years, but as mentioned I suspect that's largely being driven by the residential DSCR loans, the same way that being able to get a $200k student loan for an associates degree in basket weaving will drive up the cost of basket weaving education to $200k (and if the loans for the $200k basket weaving degrees went away, the price of a basket weaving degree would instantly drop, true or false?).

I don't, because all that does is give you a false sense of security.