My best piece of advice is to buy a house with an existing permit.

But truthfully John thank you for the reply I will look into those other options you gave every piece of advise is extremely helpful thank you!

Although the cleaner is probably the most important piece to the puzzle for your STR success, there is alot more involved with managing it.

when you're making money everyone wants a piece.

At a high level it will all come down to the specific piece of land you are looking at.  

Piece of mind?

The queen is your most powerful piece, but it needs to be used wisely to win the game.Here’s how to play the game:1.Protect Your Cash: Instead of using your hard-earned $80K for large investments outright, leverage it strategically.

There are two pieces to the loan calculation - loan to value (needs appraisal), and debt service coverage ratio (rental income vs. mortgage).

As someone who has coordinated 40+ deals in last 18 months for clients, I can tell you that the hardest piece of the puzzle is the property, the opportunity. 

Are you now using one piece of software to help with your newer due diligence process or are you ad-hoc performing "deeper tenant screening, verifying payment histories, and cross-checking financials with third-party records."?