So after being laid off a few times in the last 8 years I decided to get back into investing but this time focusing on buy and hold multi family real estate so that I could built wealth that could help me retire my wife who just had a long battle with cancer and survived , but is now back to work, and I want to give her a relaxing life free of all the stress of the world (by the way did I mention she is also in the mortgage lending field) so that explains the urgency to retire her from w-2 work ! 

We don't know what parts will survive the battles in Congress.

At a county level will be an uphill battle imo, but I'm not a local so I'm going off what is out there in the public docs.But really think Black Mountain will be the right place for what we are trying to do.

I see we have a battle here between airbnb and booking.

Other landlords or investors might have fought similar battles.

I battle with this a lot!

. :-) Even if you win the war, loosing the battle can easily wipe out all your profits and more.Think about that recent CA AirBnB case where the lady was in the guest house for almost 2 years with no rent?  

If you can convince them a bona fide lender is on board, that's 90% of the battle. 

Probably go with some nicer-smelling soaps (but even then Costco TP should be good).If it's a cheaper STR, definitely the cheaper options.

I have been battling with the credit bureaus for 15 years between 2 divorces, and multiple incidents of identity theft (the untold effect of military service).