Now, this is just for an example….hopefully no one is actually doing this as you would make $0 as a company.

As soon as you can make a trip out here, the best is to actually visit both.As always, just my opinion, and not written by Ai

Unfortunately, you have to call these OTA's many times over until you get a customer service rep who sympathizes, is knowledgeable about the platform rules and is willing to actually help you.If you don't want to ride it out, i think you have options.

Sometimes I contact people with a question about their experience, and often they are happy to answer, but this doesn't create any momentum to build a relationship in the long run.I'm actually considering moving somewhere else where there are more opportunities (e.g. more REI meetups), but I'm not sure this will automatically solve the issue I described for the LinkedIn approach.

The 3% or 4% fee sounds good, but if you are paying them off quickly, the actual interest rate you are paying is over 10%.  

I guess tht us not true?

That is, these returns are projections, based on our analyses and best guesses, but they aren’t guaranteed, and there’s always risk associated with any investment.

Obviously would like to cash flow, but guessing if I can I would need to STR - perhaps AirBnB or corporate rentals, and even then probably would have to be a refurb.

You’d be shocked by how little actual screening many PMC’s do!

In my opinion, it's much better to find a property that is profitable out-the-gate and seeing the tax benefit as more of a secondary benefit.For the pass through entity bit, a single-member LLC is actually a "disregarded entity".