With every increasing regulations on short term rentals, midterm rentals is becoming more popular with investors. 
What has been your experience with midterm rentals in DFW?
Do you manage it yourself or hire a PM?

to me I view an inspection contingency as you do it and if something is wrong you present it to the seller and say "hey fix this, reduce the price OR if it was major and really bad just walk away".If no inspection was done, then its unethical but reality is its not worth a seller to sue over it.

Given these factors, is it worth losing some cash flow by refinancing to a conventional loan, or should I explore other options?

And in general, do you believe it is worth the 25k+ price tag?

This one will be interesting, in mountain view and it is very active. https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-Real-Estate-Networking-Club/...

All this just to hopefully cashflow a few hundred $$ a month, doesn't seem worth it.Lately, I am really leaning on just investing in REIT's like Realty Income (o). as I write this Realty Income is at $57.75 paying $0.264 monthly dividend.  

So while it is possible, to me the $1500 or so in fees is well worth the cost

I have interest in a multi family property that is made up of loft studio apartments, all roughly 550 sqft. My initial interest would be trying to rent them out as mid term/ short term rentals. My question is this, wo...

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My dilemma is that one of my properties is worth about $400K and I owe ($40k on a HELOC & $50K on the mortgage) and I'm on tract to pay them both off in 16 months- paying ($2000 from the renter and me paying $4000 a month on the HELOC= $6000 per month total) I plan on doing this until both loans are paid.