Keep in mind if approved, you will only be able to turn on once for a max 72 hours so coordinate the appraiser if applicableYou bare all the costs of turn on and turn off costs with the utility companies. 

Without proper boots on the ground, your property will never get the proper love & respect it truly deserves (I get it.

STR's, if done right, are viable long term investments meant to cash flow at a reasonable enough level to properly maintain and improve them. 

So, they got taken advantage of.4) They didn't do enough research on comparable properties before doing repairs - so went either overboard or slumlord, instead of properly Maintaining to the Neighborhood.The other challenge we encounter often is investors expecting perfection.

This is just the start of a larger decline in a company raising money from investors without proper SEC fillings that is starting to not pay investors back.

Agent-advisors would merely provide advice, coordinate property photos, and review offers with their principals. 

Do you have the Capacity/Ability to close, do you have the Character/Credit to close (including relevant experience), and do you have the liquidity to properly provide enough collateral (are you injecting enough into the deal).

But they don’t know proper thinning and trimming.  

However, once a portfolio is properly diversified in a rather small number of different investments, the portfolio has reached maximum risk aversion by diversification.  

As for properly collateralized performing notes in Vegas I think those are quite safe.