By February, the median home value dropped 20 percent, bringing the price down to $560,000.TKL found there are now nearly 8,000 homes listed for sale in the Washington, DC metro area, and almost half of them have been put on the market in the last 30 days.The tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service is preparing to fire thousands of workers next week"***************************************************************************Comment: Save The IRS  - said no one, everIn the last year of our marriage my ex wife spent $150,000 on clothes.

There are people who have an entire business helping you set up and design a STR relatively quickly (3-7 days) depending on size of home and complexity but you are going to be paying a bit of a premium but you do save on the headache.

Wrapping 3 properties into one blanket loan shouldn't be a problem, save these are sitting on any sizeable acreage.You might get lucky and find a unicorn local bank or credit union that would consider that kind of leverage, but I would say overall, those terms are very unrealistic.Cheers!

Also go online to loopnet and crexi and look up similar properties to lease.  

If you ever have any questions feel free to reach out and ask I enjoy helping and offering tips and loopholes to help save time and money.

I plan to have some cool space saving things such as a "Murphy" kitchen table, desk and bed.

Hi Max, being "caring" and having a conversation with them at the door can save you.  

If at some point it just takes too much of your time or energy you can always turn over to PM to manage.If you think you will buy 4 this year, then that might save you enough money to buy a 5th.While I think it is great to have plans and goals, I will say most of my good and active investors target one a year. 

Write a book about it, utilize paid internet ads to drive book sales, follow on with YouTube videos, webinars, blog casts, on line tutorials, and sell a few one on one coaching sessions.4.

Let them know you are shopping and tell them to give you their best offer (all on the same day), and state you will go with whomever can save you the most money.