Feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to share more insight with you.For traditional buy and hold investors, long-term rents are up 1.3% year over year... not bad considering how quickly they jumped between '21-'23. 

Seeking sharp, Chinese bilingual property manager /real estate agent to help with a cash for keys negotiations with a few tenants. 

However, I’m hitting a roadblock with traditional lenders, as my loan-to-value ratio (LTV) isn’t matching their criteria.

." – Chinese ProverbIn real estate and entrepreneurship, it's all about taking that first step and learning as you go! 

won't higher-end STRs just have to be sold, to be turned back into traditional non-money making vacation homes, or primaries? 

Hello and thank you for this reply - yes, I have been analyzing a few properties - I have found that the main issue for both the traditional long term rental and also short term rental in this area is reliable property management - it is traditionally a cottage country tourist area, but it is becoming more popular for long term residency, and there is an emerging missing middle, because of property prices.

But you don't have to pay the full 5.34% to a traditional agent.

Traditional lender is most appropriate (not hard money). 

This route can help generate more cash flow than a traditional rental and offset holding costs, even if occupancy rates fluctuate.Rehab: Use part of your bonus to address those problem areas for a BRRR approach.

Are you only doing private money are you doing asset based/traditional as well?