It seems like it will return ~$200/month pure cash after all mortgage payments, fees to Doorvest, maintenance, vacancy fees, etc., I will update the exact number in this thread in the future. - Here is how Doorvest works in general: The houses are only located in Houston.

My view it’s that it’s always better building a brand rather then focussing purely on the aggregators (whether Airbnb or otherwise) but it would depend on your objectives as an investor/operator of your own spaces. 

If this concept is unfamiliar, then continue to ignore it.In closing: The dangers of shifting the timing of your income, expenses, and business transactions.A purely mathematical exercise may indicate some beneficial timing for this or that.

A PURE real estate investor would not be interested.  

There are some people that get lucky and earn cash quickly, but they generally hide the fact that it was pure luck or how much work was involved.

Property was on market for about 170 daysI originally started the STR plan for tax benefits and plan to do cost segregation as i fall into high income bracket (37%+ 11% state) saving around 50k for 600k property.I have no plan to personally use the property and this is purely investmentI thought i found a great deal because properties in the area are selling for 205-220 per sqft.

Hi @Tim Holt I think in general house hacking is usually a good move because it gets you off the sidelines and into the game with the most favorable financing possible (30 year fixed).There's a lot of value in getting started today vs waiting some undefined number of years until conditions are better, which could be a long time from now, because real estate is a business and the sooner you start actually learning about that business, the better.With all that said, I always recommend that people analyze any potential house hack as a pure investment that they aren't going to live in, because someday they may want to move out and you should know up front (before you commit) whether you're going to be able to do that, or whether you're overpaying and will be stuck in the property unable to move out because it'll be cash flow negative if you do.So you had it exactly right when you wrote, "the property would need to cash flow when I move out and rent out all units."

I was able to negotiate about 10% discount that was purely circumstantial, I'll let time do the appreciating passively instead of running a 6 months construction project with holding cost.

Although we absolutely must do our comps for ARV and handle the Subs with an iron hand and blah, blah, blah....but a lot of this game is pure dumb luck.

Idealizing a past scenario is purely negative.