Oddly, foreign national loans are very efficient as there is often limited income and employment verification. 

This approach allowed us to move quickly and efficiently, ensuring the project stayed on track.

@Nathan G.Good question. 12,500sf: I have found that that is the min number of square footage where you can automate a facility and still achieve close to maximum efficiency with expense ratio.

This approach allowed us to proceed quickly and efficiently, ensuring the project stayed on track.

This approach allowed us to proceed quickly and efficiently, ensuring the project stayed on track.

This approach allowed us to proceed quickly and efficiently, ensuring the project stayed on track.

They stated my HVAC will actually run more efficiently without insulation - because the warm crawlspace air will rise in the winter.

@Michael Plaks has a great post on this topic.2 - Assess the value of those tax deductions to you: The value of a deduction depends on (a) whether you're actually able to use it to reduce taxable income and (b) your marginal tax rate.As an STR, assuming the average rental period is 7 days or less, key items to consider are: (a) material participation and (b) avoidance of "excessive" personal use.

This off season, mission beach was the most dead since the Great Recession (excluding COVID lockdown periods).  

The biggest advice I can give you is to figure out your own goals, and be specific, so I want to invest in multi family for cash flow for instance is too broad, is your goal to have an investment or a place you enjoy living, those are often in conflict as most multi family tends not to be in the most desirable parts of towns, are you willing to high cash flow in exchange for alot more effort, risk and limited appreciation, or do you want a more stable property with potentially less or even zero cash flow, if it’s a primary residence, are you going to live there long enough to make it more sense than renting, the breakeven period in a place like Baltimore might be 3-5 years.