It's not always completely accurate, but in the worst case, you get the previous owner who won't hesitate to tell you all about the property and who they sold to.

The key to understand about STRs in CO is the regulatory environment - it is simultaneously the best part of investing here, and the worst.

Get Your Finances Sorted: Make sure you know your budget inside and out.

Worst case, it gets outlawed in a town AFTER you’ve bought a place there & now you have to sell at a HUGE loss bc there’s no buyer demand once STR use is banned!

If 4 on 1 and nowhere to go you took the first person and did the worst thing to them possible so that the others individually would think twice about trying to attack you.I am not advocating or saying to do any of that at all.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

Is there any other sort of documentation that might help besides other neighbors corroborating?

They devise all sorts of systems or software like "propstream" and they sell you on the idea that it "works based on data".Tell me this.How come you still need to send 3000 - 5000 mailers calls or texts to the "motivated seller leads" probstream is giving you to get ONE louse deal?

He has cash, but you have a VA loan and are willing to do that sort of deal. 

These properties are in the 38127 zip code east of Highway 51 sort of in the Alta Vista neighborhood.