Although most of them are longer-term tenants, I just had a midterm in my guest bedroom.

When I did my research for buying my properties in Costa Rica, I had one of the big STR management companies like Evolve analyze my potential profits and I used that info to raise money through bringing on partners to buy the properties. 

Quote from @Jokari Trueheart: HI, almost 11 months ago I purchased 3 duplexes and I borrowed the funds from my personal residence which I took out a equity agreement for the down payment on the investment property, great idea at the time because I have 10 years to pay it off and theres no payment requirement, but , I learned more about the consequence that it takes a large chunk of my equity the longer I take to pay it back, so my goal was to refi cash out the investment property to pay it back but I don't think theres enough equity yet to pull the full $106k needed, I only borrowed $88k but with the equity percentage for one year i'm paying about $18k in equity on top of the amount I borrowed if I pay it off in year one, so I need this paid off ASAP before it increases more.

Around here they range from $35 to $300 so that would be my first question!

About my ideas and general questions.

For example I use RentRedi and offer that as one of the options for my tenants to pay rent.

I was pretty leveraged with my HELOC, 401k loans, etc. but I could have been even more aggressive.I only have 12-doors though.

That’s why lending is my biggest concern.

Lots of old houses valuing over 500k and up to 1M (local house price in my market is 167k).

I recently locked down my first property as I start on my real estate adventure.