You’d need a clear exit plan and enforceable lease terms to protect your investment.Think about the following:Tenant Risk – Can they truly recover financially, or will you face another eviction situation?

Read and follow your lease, don't allow your tenant to dictate terms.

I would try not to tie up any of the principal in down payments.Personally, I had a family member do this same thing, but they used an investment portfolio as the collateral instead of real estate.If you play your cards right, this might be the only short-term money you ever need.Please let us know what you end up doing.

This gives investors some time to complete a rollover and, in some rare cases, can be used as a source of short-term liquidity.Unfortunately, inherited IRAs are not treated as your own and do not fall under the 60-day rule.

Are they meeting your long-term investment goals?

That way I wouldn't be subject to long term capital gains tax and save a decent chunk of change.Also, my understanding of gifts, in this case money, is that there is a yearly limit to how much you can give someone without having to fill out form 709.

Multifamily real estate has traditionally been a stable asset class, and the Washington D.C. metro has traditionally been a stable market area, making the two together a good safe bet, especially for anyone with a long-term view of their investing strategy.

It is a nightmare evicting deadbeat tenants, so when they are out I will only go back to AirBnb, short term rentals in the future as Vermont has laws very favorable to annual leasing tenants.

Not much in terms of online reviews as far as I can tell

Some similar phone numbers and such to other short term companies that other people said were scams.