Finally, as an aspiring/budding lender, I don't have as much access to mentors, but then again it's easier than rehabbing/flipping and probably easier than buying and holding and managing multifamily. 

And as far as legal—an attorney becomes essential once you're ready to finalize terms with either an HML or private lender to make sure everything’s secure.Hope this helps!

With all respect to AirDNA and the amazing data they provide for STR owners, their pricing tool is not on par with most tools available there. 

If something in our market is not a good investment we pass.Hope this helps.One final point, don’t go ALL IN on your first deal.

Finally, what’s the rate of return for alternative investments? 

I went through this whole process recently of researching for Real Estate CPA and finally went with referral from friend that also invests in real estate. 

I've been researching servicers and building data on a very small list.

Don't worry about minor complaints, you are doing a fine job.Just one question, ALL sites have a delay in data from MLS updates, and from court reported information, and so on, is that a function of a monthly update routine or can the information be updated a little more frequently? 

From personal experience, this can motivate them to do a final deep clean before handing over the keys.Finally, for peace of mind, you might consider consulting a local real estate attorney.

That they wanted "Cheap" buys, not intelligent buy's, not data driven buys, not future casting buys, just "cheap".