You can most certainly make more money with higher occupancy in your short-term rental.2.

Zeona is a prolific real estate agent with a ton of knowledge, she has been an Airbnb host since 2012 she has over ten years of being a short-term rental property manager and consultant.

In addition to offering "cash for keys" assure them that they can use you as a referral on their next tenant application, or offer them a short term-2 month lease.

Heather Skowronsky In short, it falls down to a personal opinion instead of an official statement.

As another poster mentioned rates are lower than they've been in the previous 18+ months but unless some very surprising economic data comes out between now and when you did your refi it seems unlikely that rates are going up in the short term and there is at least a decent chance that rates drop a little more before then. 

If you are going to buy in a lower tier neighborhood, it should be one that has strong fundamentals and a thesis that supports rapid appreciation in a short period of time.

They want the easy, short road to building a company and someone has to pay for that short cut.  

It can be a positive for short term rentals (if in a good area) to be near the airport.

The higher insurance premium required a higher escrow payment which the original borrower didn’t let me know.  

I totally recognize that is impatient and greedy.My gut is saying your short picture idea is where we're heading since we are taking the same hit with brokerage account (I didnt even mention borrowing against 401k - yes its not advised but my wife and I have stable W2 income to pay ourselves back) Thanks again, this BP community / forum is awesome