If you are paying cash for the STR this seems pretty easy. 

Easy to buy, not as easy to sell.#2 Read the property code 2-3 times before you start ....the tax sale portion. 

I’d love to hear about the crime rates or any other issues (which we cannot guess from the online stats), and how easy or hard it is to find reliable tenants and property management companies.

A 10% yield looks great on paper but it's easy to let that slip away if each returning payment cannot quickly get put back to work at a similar yield.

Borrowers should always shop around, especially in the hard money space where it is so easy to quickly get preliminary terms over the phone.

Come tax time it becomes fairly easy to run separate reports for each entity or each property for schedule E.

Its not as easy but once you are up in running you are building a brand, equity in your business, and also constant flow of leads.

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Would it be easy to rent out?

Easy to keep it to a comfortable temp.