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That being said, we are currently exploring financing options for funding our first investment property purchase which have brough up a couple questions we cannot seem to get a straight forward answer on: 1.

Set up keyword alerts for those locations to see who's in the markets and the topics associated with them.

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Zach and everyone on his team is very straightforward, helpful & responsive when it comes to making sure we were well informed on everything we were doing. 

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I have yet to do a true rehab (flip), but my advice would be to absorb as much information as you can and set up keyword alerts for the "fix & flip" to see others questions and answers as well as look through the deal analysis forum category to see how others analyze deals and estimate rehab costs.

Set up key words to follow like "Airbnb" "Vacation Rental", "STR", STRP, etc.  

Whether you can take the ITC on the STR portion is something your tax advisor should help you in navigating (its not straightforward)