While the initial costs are a consideration, the long-term ROI can be favorable if there's sufficient demand in your market.

Pete) and have narrowed it down to finding a single family home with a pool in the unincorporated Bay Pines area or Indian Rocks Beach (note, it took a long time for me to get over my beach view condo dream in a popular area but HOA fees and restrictions helped!).

Overall, how long do you spend in deal analysis for each property, and how many properties do you review before making a decision?

I'm comparing this to investing in an ETF fund, which in the long term averages out to 10% returns per year. 25% down plus all all the closing costs and various expenses could be more than 200K.

I’ve not done any creative financing or invested out of state or short term rentals or fix and flips. 

The compromises and terms that you'd have to accept for a lender to take that amount of risk would likely be a bad idea.

I know they might be easy to borrow from, but you might want to look at more professional funding sources in the longer term.

If you perform a 1031 exchange, you may avoid immediate recapture taxes, but long-term holding strategies must account for eventual recapture.4.

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Hello All, what are desirable locations / zip codes in Boise for investments in short term rentals / airbnb friendly investments ?