Investing in an Airbnb or VRBO vacation investment property just became more challenging.Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently announced financing restrictions for condo buildings that have a concentration of units utilized for short term or vacation rentals.

First, be careful of the solicitations you will receive, @Trae Robrock, now that you announced you have money to lend and no experience.

These changes are effective for new submissions, that have not been pre-locked, dated on or after March 31. [...]As previously mentioned in this commentary, Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. enacted a two-week suspension of all lending activity including mortgage originations, and temporarily laid off most of its staff. [...]Plaza Home Mortgage has made multiple announcements recently about operational and program changes [...]Starting Friday AmeriHome set the minimum decision credit score for all government loan streamline refinance transactions at 680. [...]AmeriHome temporarily suspended “Bulk Assignment of Trade (Bulk AOT) Commitments until the current market dislocation has subsided: no new Bulk AOT Commitments will be issued at this time. [...]

With renters owing thousands of dollars in back rent to landlords since the pandemic started, the Los Angeles City Council announced an additional $259 million for its COVID-19 “Emergency Renters Relief Program.”

If you are interested in attending when we restart, send me an email and we will let you know when we make an announcement.

Many manufacturing and technology-focused companies have announced moves to the Austin area in the past few months, though it's hard to know how many have specifically followed Tesla.https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/03/30/tesla-hiring-for-gigafactory-in-austin.html?

The announcement of Apple bringing 3K jobs to RTP is good news for the area and will likely have a ripple effect with smaller tech companies following suit.

I can see alot of possible potential in central and northern WV with the announcement by China Energy to invest in WV up to 85 billion over the next 20 years in natural gas related activities. 

Just announcing my presence here on BP…I've been researching REI for a couple of years but have yet to get serious about actually doing it.

Also a major improvement to Hwy 380 itself was just announced this week.