I would love to connect and get a sense of what you're seeing in Huntsville and or talk shop on the phone.

Is this common?

SEO has gotten so complex that the average Joe really has no chance of ranking on something as common as "vacation rental" or the like.

I am currently doing all of the work in analyzing deals and researching properties, I'm just curious if the new environment makes more or less sense to get licensed.Any insights are helpful!

What they told me was, even though I think this place should get $1100-$1200 a month per unit, it was rented before at $900 per unit (well, the dad's son lived in one and he rented the other to his friend for $900) so I can only get a loan to cover 80% of that amount(or something like that).Does all that make sense? 

Rather than lock in a year lease I tried my hand at short term rentals considering the house was located near the beach in a tourist town, it just made sense.

Many investors from markets where numbers aren't penciling, are choosing to invest in the midwest because of the yearly returns making more sense in these lower priced markets.

I think getting the water company out there makes the most sense which is what you are doing already do good luck. 

Then add r&m reserves, vacancy reserves, etc and you are in negative territory.If you do 75% LTV on $220k it makes a little more sense, but it is still a skinny deal.I'd love to get others opinions on this. 

Wyoming is another place to commonly form an LLC because of the low cost.