If your brand new to this world, my advise to use realtor, redfin, or other MLS site and a rental property calculator and start analyzing deals, all the ones you can in whatever area your interested in. 

Try to add the futuristic lenses into your analysis whenever you can. In

Local lender we had a relationship with and we locked the rate for 3 years at 4.3% on a fat 1st.   

A lot of fat was built during the recent booming economy, so people could get away with a STR in a bad area, or poorly managed, or bad purchase.

When banks are trimming down, 2nd lien Helocs are often some of the first "fat" to be trimmed.That's partially why we went for a 1st position LOC, as they have the staying power more similar to a traditional mortgage.

@Isaac El it’s probably because they owe way more than the house is worth.. meaning they would rather just pay the taxes every year than have a big fat amount due at closing if they were to sell

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.Question then is opportunity cost and capital. how many times you can you leave 25K in the deal and keep going?

It's not TurboTax's fault most times, it's usually something I entered wrong on a previous screen (fat fingered).

Park a Sani-Can in the front yard and tell them the next time it clogs you have provided "relief".

You make structural engineers smile at keeping a nice fat safety margin in their dead load calcs. loooool.