Overall, the setup and funding process was extremely straight-forward and the customer service was great.  

Rents that are significantly lagging market go up $75.I chose the Winter timeframe because no one wants to pack and move during the holidays and cold.

Keeping investor money safe in this environment requires extreme amounts of investigation. 

It's cold outside and mice are looking for warm places to live.

The current owners have extremely low occupancy and are open to selling.

Over the last (3) years I have seen some extreme cases of expedited equity where an investor buys an older home or "Ugly Inventory" and then bats clean up on the ARV in 12 months.To give you an example I helped an investor refinance her home in 2023 pull cash out to buy a $65K home all cash.

We have a savings account where we split up into different buckets (from our w2 and passive income) and one bucket is for real estate and when we have enough to acquire another asset we will consider it.I am not a fan of borrowing 100% of the transaction costs including closing costs as it will be extremely difficult to make money many times on those types of deals.

Hopefully, I'm wrong but if not take into account for the families "house-hacking", it's an extreme and unpleasant sacrifice with a majority likely not happy with it.

While it’s not impossible to close in mid December and still meet all requirements of the STR loophole, it will be extremely difficult due to the nature of hitting 150 hours, having it rented for 15 days or greater and having the avg stay be no greater than 7 days and not a decimal more.

I feel like having some good experts helping me clearly identify best practices and targets for success (instead of guessing) to be extremely helpful.