It would be a temporary imbalance of supply and demand and if that's the case I would guess in a month or two your competition on REO's would dramatically decrease.

But if you plan to buy multiple properties over time, then I would keep the VA in my back pocket and go with the physician loan now..... if the rates were were not dramatically worse. 

I didn't realize that he didn't even live there as the water bill dramatically went down.

These past 3 years I've gone through a dramatic change from constant happiness to utter depression.

Not sure if you've looked into VRBO for the area, but my understanding is that Airbnb is used dramatically less than VRBO here.

Otherwise you're presumably talking about adding square footage, in which case you can get a ballpark estimate by thinking about how many square feet you would be adding and multiplying that by the cost per square foot for construction in your area (which can vary dramatically but you can get a sense of the range from Googling and looking at pages like this).

They have improved dramatically but are still pretty bad.

To say the lending standards were loose would be a dramatic understatement.

Luxury STR's are less effected but Mid Term in the Tri County area have been popular since prices and rents have increased so dramatically on the East Sides of town, making furnished long term rentals very active.

I have a saying, no matter where you are in Baltimore you are only 2 blocks from the "hood" While that is not totally true, one or two blocks can dramatically change the character of the neighborhood in Baltimore.