Based on some rough calculations, once fully stabilized and running (including property management), I predict the tiny home community to cash flow around $20,000/month and be worth roughly $3.5 million!

I can only speculate that he kept responding to cover his butt, but he did not come through with his word.

I mean if that was the case once the agent holds an open house the house would not be new construction by your definition. f) I think you are getting hung up on the technical use of the word "new construction".

It's an educated experienced based choice to buy or sell RE.

The Anacortes ban happened fairly quickly, so I agree with you, it is hard to base an investment solely on something that jurisdiction can ban.

It was easy to set it up, but I am very concerned about their Price Optimizer...It tells me the average market base price is $214/night, but it provides an "Automatic base price" (an algorithmic tool based on local market demand) of $3160/night and no one from customer service can tell me why there is such a discrepancy.

You will need to be expanding your STR portfolio each year to stay in this game.

my brokers all told me 10.9-11% for HELOC's and so i called Navy Federal CU and they quoted me at 9% with a $700 fee for the loan, that's really competitive so I went with the CU.Brokers are good at getting a bank account loan, based on existing funds if you don't want them to pull credit/income verification

Personally, I would go after base hits 

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