I would say for most people, the 1st position heloc is no a good bet, especially if you have a 1st mortgage rate of less than 5%.Using this strategy with a 2nd position heloc can be just as powerful, so you can have your cake and eat it too!

   #4 Is great and I bet this one can lead to many successful closed deals. 

It looks like according to the county site (sbcounty.gov) they require all renter payment go to the active owner. 

(I know a lot of investors who are doing this, but I've been surprised to find out that it's a new concept that others haven't considered.)The more units, the better in this scenario because you can hedge your bets with more units.

How that impacts the unemployment rate I am unsure, but you can bet it has misguided it for the past 1-2 years.2) Severance will not crater the consumption economy overnight. 3-6 months severance, the real bleeding won't happen to end of Q3/top of Q4.

I've looked at a few of the sites and will reach out to them. 

Just trying to learn more about the process when its purchase only as I've seen that option on some lender sites. 

I used Hostaway for the last year and the they recently snuck in a 1.8% fee for our direct booking site.

I am listed on 5 platforms plus have a direct booking site and I rank highly across my 5 listings.  

This site makes me believe that we should use a 1065 however since I am involved in the partnership.