They take your electricity bill for the year and do a straight line calculation which is almost always wrong because your electrical company charges vary by the hour, and solar production vary by the hour / season etc.

For many owners, this is a win.Other owners may value the consistent monthly deposits rather than worrying about the usually seasonal STR incomes. 

And if that doesn't work, we start quoting the lease in a factual, bullet point kind of way with no drama or finger pointing and always ask them to stop in to talk about it.   

I think it can be profitable for seasoned real estate investors who have both the time and expertise to make sure their rehab project stays on budget, but I definitely wouldn’t recommend biting off more you can chew and doing BRRRR for your first deal.

They may not take on new clients in the first quarter of busy season.  

Cons - you have to wait a few months depending on the seasoning period to do the cash out refi.

Otherwise contract a service for the season that will automatically take care of for every snowfall.4) YES you need to heat them!

Conventional financing would be difficult as they typically require 12 months seasoning to use the newly appraised value.

We do this for the busy season, then allow to trail off late in the year.

As we sell through these items should we create a bank account with the llc to "season" the capital for when we are ready to reach out to a lender when we are ready to make our first investment?