Hi Andrea, my wife and I own a Short Term Rental in West Michigan so I would be happy to answer any questions you have on how to analyze the property, what you should look for in a property and what questions to ask the county. 

Thank you for the response.I am in west LR.

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I sold that in 92. next iteration was 2002 when I started a new lending company in Portland OR to specifically fund Turnkey buyers in the mid west doing BRRRR loans we killed that.

I saw another property in the West Palm Area. 

When you start asking the question, where are we going to get more housing for all of the 20,000 people moving to our valley every year, you look around and say: "I guess I will".Our first project has been over 3 years in process with a handful of friends and my Dad as the primary investor, we are ready to break ground on 17 units of townhomes and multifamily units for sale in West Boise.

Overall not terrible on your first BRRR, but the cost of the reno is almost the same there and the same in the Heights, West U, etc., obviously the barrier to entry is different but so is the ARV.

out west here we do our own deeds we never use an agent or title or an attorney..

For the areas of interest (you are local so I'll say suburbs west of City Line Avenue) there are few and far between -and- have many investors sitting on large sums of cash to jump on anything that comes up (where I would be navigating a reverse 1031.) 

Target Low Vacancy RatesChicago neighborhoods like Lakeview and West Town boast low vacancy rates, meaning fewer empty months.