Hi Brian,You're on the right track, but to determine if you're truly generating cash flow, it's important to look beyond just your mortgage payment.Here's what to consider:Income: You're receiving $2,100 in rent, which is great.Expenses: Besides your $3,232 mortgage, you likely have other expenses like property taxes, insurance, maintenance, utilities (if you cover any), and potential vacancy costs.If your total rental income exceeds all of these combined costs, then you're generating positive cash flow.

I don't think it is that accurate sometimes, but combined with the review on the 2 OTA's, you should get a pretty good idea.You can also go to Awning.com's estimator - https://www.awning.com/airbnb-estimatorIt is free and pulls the same basic data AirDNA does.

However, if your spouse qualifies for REP status (for example, if they are a stay-at-home partner), you may be able to apply the losses to offset your combined income.

The quality of modern lumber is simply far inferior to the quality of lumber they were using to build homes in the early and mid-20th century.

House hacking is the most powerful way to get started in real estate investing, and it sets you up for success because you learn so many things: dealing with contractors, how to screen tenants, lease negotiation, but most importantly, your goal should be to reduce or eliminate your housing cost, and there are a lot of ways to do with house hacking depending on your flexibility with strategy: rent by room, Section 8, mid-term rental, STR, etc, and you can combine multiple strategies too. 

This is before even the problem that these techniques and strategies work only in a limited number of opportunities, and these opportunities can only be recognized by someone with knowledge of real estate principles, law and finance. interestingly, what seems to sell nowadays is this pop cultural belief that education in anything but specific techniques is worthless; that something called motivation, combined with a positive mindset and an unwillingness to accept reality will triumph over anything else and lead to massive success.  

The mountains aren't going anywhere and this is still the busiest National Park in the Country (busier than Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite all 3 combined).

A former Rite Aid in Alpharetta, Georgia, has been transformed into Off Leash, a combination dog park and restaurant.

Let's say ARV is $300k, and sale costs are combined 8% so $276k net sale, that puts you at 80% of the total cost, it gives you a ton of margin for errors and mistakes that I would almost promise you will happen in a project like this. 

The combination of lower debt costs and rising cap rates is reinvigorating investor interest, particularly in prime urban locations.