Provide the scope of work done to the appraiser.All you can do is your best, so make it nice and pretty for that appraiser.Especially if you are looking to cash out refinance shortly here.

Then buy out my partners on my Costa Rica properties, and just host retreats in Costa Rica, visit my cabins, collect cash flow, and enjoy my wife and kids and travel around visiting friends in my awesome motorhome which I have not purchased yet. great goals.. mine is to buy a nice drift boat and flyfish all over the west and up into BC. trying to figure out do I buy a summer cabin say in Western Montana or Eastern Idado as a home base..

It's nice to see the community showing support for STRs and pointing out that an STR doesn't solve any of the real problems.  

Much cheaper to keep it nice and cool.

Sometimes it's nice to get a new lease so that you can increase the rent right off the bat, but having tenants with a solid payment history is worth so much more to me.

HI @Tayvion PaytonCongrats on a nice portfolio you have there!

I did get grandfathered in and the area where I bought is in a nice part of town. 

A friend of mine in Austin once negotiated a partial buy back option when the seller realized they might want back in if the market soared.. from what I read in Bloomberg, that approach can work well if both sides trust each other.If the tenants’ rent covers your carrying costs, that’s a nice cushion, but you still need to clarify that buy back clause.

Nice size to startwith, but not large.His particularsituation is he can retire in 12 months with significant pensionpayments and 401k funds, at the age of 56.

I have the bigger pocket calculator if you have one a little more detail I would love to see it ok very nice!