Should I take out equity in the home towards a crash pad and/or doing some minor upgrades on the home OR should I save up to get into air BNB arbitrage to increase my money flow and put that towards fixing the home and eventually obtaining a crash pad.

The particulars are:Total SF: 5160Roof: Shingles, replaced 2001Plumbing: Mix of PVC and Copper, updated in 2014-2023Heating/ cooling: forced air, 3 furnaces replaced in 2014-16, one AC replaced in 2014Electrical: has been updated periodically from 2014-2023.

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Every year in summer I post a video about the hottest neighborhoods in Milwaukee and what I found is, that small markets that don't sell at least 100 homes during spring do not offer a large enough statistical sample size to get reasonable numbers, outliers impact the result too much.To your point, if I look at Whitefish Bay with it's 14,000 affluent residents, there is not really a B, C or D area.

Is it a multifamily or single family you are planning on using as air bnb?

Go visit Disney Springs, walk the resort properties, go to Magic Kingdom and Hollywood if you can.

I think if you can find a $300k house that's a 3x2 that needs a little bit of work and you can have some small equity built up day 1 that might work.I would look in the Apopka, Forest City, Longwood, Casselberry, and Winter Springs areas and try to find a house for around $300k, the rent should be $1700-$2,200 and that might cash flow you a little bit.

It was a slow start to the initial spring 2024 shopping season, but properties are still closing quickly, still nearly 1/4+ for all cash and the majority of investors are well capitalized due to the appreciation of their real estate and stock based assets. 

I have started going down the road to do a DSCR cash out refi on a duplex (BRRR) I purchased last year with my HELOC, but not that far yet. I know rates have dropped a decent amount in the last week or 2, but based on...