I have a good STR agent in the Poconos, DM me your email and I will intro you to him. 

If your area is popular over Christmas, you could still get booked and with slashed prices you just lost some revenue.

Join a local facebook RE group and ask who the best commercial lenders are and ask for a point of contact instead of just the name of the bank. 

The first graph below from the St.

There are plenty of ways around an HOA but they tend to break the rules that you committed to following.

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I’ve had several investor clients go with a new (to me)/ unproven lender because of a slightly lower rate promise only to get burned by that lender (closing costs were higher, appraisal costs much higher and appraisal was a nightmare, main point of contact gave us the clear to close as we passed our financing contingency then just before closing someone from the underwriting department we previously didn’t know existed said we need a few more days and seller didn’t agree because they had a higher backup offer, jeopardizing the earnest money and losing the property, etc).

Our success rate goes up even higher if we directly call the asset manager after seeing that they've read our email or clicked on a link or two.

You can always buy the books and learn all there is if you have the time.

This will be the first time I’ve used them.