Consider you'll have to furnish all 5 units (including stuff like kitchen supplies, linens, etc) - cover your nut with long-term leases, and see if STR is going to be worth the hassle and expense.

There one will find stuff like rentability scores, rents, tenant and vacancy durations, PM scores, basically the insider nuts and bolts for that exact address historically.

I did buy a River front home last year out of Portland Columbia river Frontage was thinking about doing short term I rented it one weekend and they drove me nuts so its not something I want to do personally since we would use the house to. 

Investors out of state count on me from soup to nuts throughout the purchase to rehab to exit strategy for their investments.

I drove my manager nuts because I refused to say to the husband at a kitchen table, "I know you love your family" while his wife was sitting there!

If some nut at a title company suggests a QCD ask for title insurance coverage on that conveyance,If a conveyance is not to or from a related party or entity, like partners, it is not the proper deed to be used!

Home Depot for the nuts and bolts by far and depending on your spend Home Depot is more contractor friendly.

The market here is nuts!!!

Steve would have had the ability to settle down his roots here instead of being priced out of the NYC location.I know Investors tend to think of only in terms of Today and find it very unpredictable to think of tomorrow, but please remember that even Squirrels think about tomorrow as they put away their Nuts for the Winter.

I thought that was nuts but whatever let's go with it.