Certain investors/servicers use these platforms for short sales and many times for REO's.

Just trying to understanding the profit you can make by buying and selling a house within short periods of time 5-10 years.

While the returns can be much greater, the cheese moves much faster in the game of short-term rentals, and the knowledge and strategy required when it comes to existing and future government regulation (on the city, county, and even state levels) is hugely important as one could get put out of business at any time.

A hard money loan charges a high interest rate and is meant to be short term financing.

Index funds are great for long-term investors, potentially terrible for those with a short time-horizon.

Hello Ryan,I am in a similar boat, but unfortunately, unless you have huge capital reserves, it'll be hard to buy enough to offset that much income, at least in a short amount of time. 

If you locate and purchase a property even at current market value in one of these neighborhoods, you're likely not to find yourself upside-down in something in the short term (the next couple of years) and beyond, even if (WHEN) the market begins to soften.Identifying this will either take a whole lot of research on your end and/or the help of someone else who knows the market better.

As I'm sitting here drinking coffee and listening to some good music I realize that I really miss it.

Not to mention the fact that $160k to $250k in the next 5 years is not likely to occur as we are at peak market prices and short of a major break through in technology and jobs, salaries won't support that without a significant correction first.

I am looking in the $175K-$250K range.Questions:I've listened to Podcast 229 with Zeona McIntyre and read the articles about short-stay on this site.