Here in New York, it's kind of up in the air. 

you say that you "were told to" get an STR for tax purposes, which seems odd, and that you only have 30-40K... and you might use HELOC money to help with the down payment, which will just put tremendous pressure on you to be profitable and support all of the debt.unless i am missing something i would back up and regroup before you buy a random STR in a random market and hope it supports all the debt you will have to have...

For example, if you buy in a semi-rural area or suburban area the pool of applicants can be much smaller and with an increase in supply it creates a downward pressure on prices and higher days on market averages.

I have a fully furnished home I want to put on Air BnB.  

Buenos Aires just announced plans to allow citizens to pay taxes using crypto.

I run an air BnB out of my home in Southern Vt And I own 2 condos at Mt Snow. 

I talked to his rep on the phone over a year ago, very high pressure.

Air BNB allowed.

We still get these blasts of arctic air when the yet stream is looping south and it gets really cold, but that's a week or two of really cold temps and not a sustained winter.

There has been downwards pressure on rates this year due to the economy.