I was left in limbo, accumulating massive losses the entire time.After eviction, things got even better (sarcasm alert).Huge repair bill ( as expected )Of course the 15% fee for managing those repairs.First-month rent for the next lease?

Of course, my focus is veterans so I may be biased. 

and that was owner occ.. todays rates are pretty normal actually. what you can do if you want though is find a really good HML and let them place a loan for you making 10 to 12% while your wait for things to change to a situation that you feel you want to move forward be more net return than buying a rental thats for sure. of course no tax bene's but there really is not that much tax benefit on one rental.. so just some alternatives. 

There's obviously opportunity here to build this out and turn it into a basement apartment, which I think would cash flow because of course there's no mortgage. 

I have visited many where street view looks awesome and of course you get excited. 

MUCHHHH better and of course that leaves us with plenty of room to pay the mortgage payment so the lender is happy.Btw, I just wrote the Co-Living book for BP that comes out in Spring, you can sign up for it here!

And you can quite literally walk there from the U.S. side if you didn't forget your passport at home :) Of course, I don't know how much (if at all) this could affect a hospitality business, so I would continue trying to find someone who actually operates an STR here to find out more.  

There’s nothing special about the seller financing terms here IMO, unless you can’t get a conventional loan of course but if that’s the case the balloon payments create a high risk for you and you shouldn’t do it anyway.

With DSCR, credit and down payment are the major factors (plus the property itself of course) so it is very possible since a lot of the properties in the area cashflow pretty well. 

Of course, with all things, the answers to all these matters will depend on the circumstances.California tends to have more laws on the books and requirements and restrictions that it can be a good idea to form a CA LLC for out of state property so that you as a CA resident are covered, and to try to have your contracts fall under the purview of CA courts.