I had the same realization as Michael when considering section 1245 assets in a 1031 exchange, and I really have been looking for a concrete answer ever since. 

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realize the people on that list aren’t interested in selling.

You do realize this is exactly how contractors bid pretty much everything....and realtors work this way too.

You will quickly realize there is a lot of information out there, whenever, you're thinking of starting to invest don't get held up by paralysis by analysis.

You already realize that trying to handle this remotely is adding complexity and risk.

An appraiser doesn't guarantee you the loan you want.I don't invest in STRs myself but if I were going to I would realize I'd need to beat out most of the competition to be successful.  

But we soon came to realize that we could re-rent a unit in a matter of days as long as we had proper notice from the tenant.  

One particular lender and when I say Lender, I’m talking about the individual loan officer that we have worked with in the past had a number of his Lending policies changed so we had to start using someone else when he did not have a product that fit .I realize that a number of the replies have come from lenders themselves so they’re looking for faithful customers.

I recently started using Buildium and am realizing I now need to run both systems in parallel and unable to sink my bank account transactions on Buildium but Quickbooks is fine.  

Do you realize that de facto buyers of all financed properties are mortgage companies/banks that finance them and get the Deeds of Trust?