You'll get the most favorable financing terms and offset your housing expense while paying principle.

Joshua,My wife and I have 3 STR's.  1 in Missouri and 2 in Florida(1 is a condo and one is a house).  

My intention is to house hack and eventually STR the property. 

He's the man on flipping houses

Another thing, if your cleaners bring their own vacuums, they could be transferring them from house to house. 

nothing pointed at you personally but there has been build to rent projects were investors had to put up 50k non refundable and never got their house built.. so I can see putting it in escrow and releasing it upon closing for sure.. thats what i personally do with my new builds although since we average 25 to 75k of upgrades per house buyers have to stroke non refundable checks directly to us for those items.

Quote from @John Laseter: Good morning all, Saturday afternoon a gentleman knocked on my door and produced a postcard that I had sent to his house offering to buy it.

With as much talk about creating affordable housing in Colorado Springs, there is going to have be some discussion about how to address these rising costs in housing that are not directly related to the sales price of the home.I wish I had a better answer for you, but this is going to be an issue for HOA's in the area for years to come...

There is not a separate entrance to the basement, but the stairs to the basement are in a laundry room in the back part of the house.

The new owner has not authorized the work on house.