If you have any bandwidth to discuss that aspect with me, I would love to pick your brain about you source deals and what is working for you in this current market.

From purely a lending perspective, the projections from AirDNA and Rabbu are the only commonly accepted sources for underwriting a short term rental purchase or refinance DSCR loan.

This way, you would have two income sources offsetting most, or all, of your mortgage payment.

I'm looking for solid answers on this or may be a good source to look for this bit.

The key is to have a trusted GC and property source.

For example, an agent would collect a reduced commission, flat transaction fee, or no commission if the buyer sources an off-market deal directly.In your case, if you'd like to compensate your agent, you can include it in the loan.

From everything I hear the costs exponentially grow when a PM hires out your repairs/maintenance compared to the cost of you source the work yourself.

I like them if I were buying for a place I'm putting roots down in, but seems like a waste otherwise

That's why we started offering BRRR Turnkeys, where we help investor source a property (or they can find on their own), we rehab it, supplying rehab videos so they can see what was actually done.

You can combine both sources in one document to strengthen your proof.