The best strategy really depends on your goals, risk tolerance, and your market conditions.

While markets had anticipated the first rate cuts as early as March or May, those expectations have now shifted to June or September.

Quote from @Jaren Taylor: Quote from @Chris Mason: If you have the ability to market and raise money, then you secure the down payment, and do the normal commercial mortgage process. 

Hey TylerI'd say it's important to weigh the risks and rewards when considering a house hack, especially in a market like Denver.

Typically on market (retail) SFH rent is at ~0.5% rent to purchase price ratio. 

Cleveland is a great market if you know how to navigate it and have a good property manager.

.- Short-Term Rentals in Non-Traditional Markets: Secondary markets like Florence, Alabama, are ideal for short-term rentals.

Institutional Borrowers (With In-House Capital Markets Team): We work with many institutional clients with 1,000's of units under management that have in-house capital markets teams.

we have investors who are trying to decide between long term rentals on new builds and short term rentals on new builds in midwest markets in urban adjacent core neighborhoods. how are yours performing?

If you consider going north, the Manchester market has been seeing some extraordinary gains (similar for RI, though).