The property will need to have a slight rehab to get it up to STR standards, but when complete it should easily be a $200k Gross booking revenue property.

Buying in a high COLA with loss protection is a no-brainer in my book, but only if you expect to relo again.

Our goal is to snowball our efforts and scale quickly over the next few years.I’ve read a few books on real estate investing, and I’ve heard great things about BiggerPockets as a resource and community for learning and networking.

2) How booked out are they?

You should buy a good book about being a landlord.

And because of that, they each got more than 10 bookings within the first two days.

You decided to become a real estate agent.You went to school, bought your books, passed your exam, got hired by a broker, ordered business cards and took a head shot.

From a scaling standpoint, for at least whoever is doing the books, Buildium is far behind in this and is adding time and/or cost for these added tasks that need to be done.

That violates the Takings Clause.MD can be distinguished (in fact MD was mentioned in the decision) in that there IS a process on the books for the foreclosed owner to petition the court for the surplus. 

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