If your goal is to buy strictly for investment its not bad to stack cash.

Congrats on your success in acquiring the duplex that now will yield 6.5% cap at current lower rental rates. 94115 is a great zip code to be in.

If before getting a permit you have to dance around for Code Dept officials/ city gov and crime is thru the roof, investments will definitely be low whether real estate or other, but it should be benefiting the city officials to keep things that way.

I know MLS listings aren't guaranteed accurate, but getting the acreage, city and zip code wrong is hard to swallow as an honest mistake.We have a financing contingency, so if it doesn't appraise for the contract amount due to the lower acreage and different city/zip, we can renegotiate purchase price.

But it's not strictly required.3.

This could have easily been replaced with code/AI.

Go to the city and county of your prospective STR and ask for the deed restrictions and/or municipal code, for the specific property.

For example, cities like Amsterdam have introduced strict limits, while others are more flexible.Regarding your comment that Southern Italy is very different from the rest of Europe, I would say it is actually quite similar to Southern Spain in many ways.

I don't see how they relate to wanting to educate myself or asking for reading recommendations. .I was responding to your comment: "if I get involved in any sub to deals"Education is always great, and subject to is legal as long as it's done legally.Here is how it is set up if you do it wronglySince law is is difficult for some people, let me be more clearThere are various codes that can be violated when buying properties (the definitions are easy to find with a quick search)Equity skimmingEquity strippingForeclosure RescueMortgage FraudShort SellingFalse StatementsWire FraudBank Fraud and so onhere's a sample12 U.S.

You will also need to check your local laws for any strict laws that may make running an Airbnb hard.