I’ve got enough to cover a roof and a furnace.none of this came from my pockets but tenants.

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

They cover the counties with online access to public records (over 2200 counties). 

I suspect I will throw more money at a problem Airbnb has no interest in covering

The rents pretty much never seem to cover the mortgage costs, even with low interest rates.

We like the short-term rental idea because we could stay at the property ourselves when we want - summer break, spring/winter breaks, etc.Our budget will be right around $1M or less ideally, and we would like a short distance to the ocean.How likely is it that we could find a property as described above and have it cover or come close to covering the mortgage? 

I use airbnb and rent out rooms to cover most of my mortgage.

I am still obligated on the interest payment regardless of how much has been deployed but that is worked into the fund proforma and can be covered by deal cashflow.As to resale price, one of the last one's I did I sold for $125K and had a private loan for $85K which I wrapped.

Hi Shayan, You will be able to close on properties quickly and have access to rehab funds immediately if you are able to qualify for a HELOC that can cover both the purchase and rehab.You should be careful though as if you cannot sell the property or you run out of rehab funding, you may end up being over leveraged.

- FYI: it's only illegal to try to rent it out, the property owner can usually legally live in a nonconforming basement unit.If you do all this you may still negatively cashflow each month, so make sure your income can cover and/or your cash reserves.If you do this successfully, you will learn more in 1-2 years than you would reading here on BP for 5+ years:)Good luck:)