This requires us to do periodic "maintenance inspections" and we keep an eye out for rental agreement violations at the same time.Hope this helps!

Our shorte(er) list includes Phoenix, LAs Vegas, Nashville, Atlanta, and Texas (Austin,Houston, San Antonio). 

Welcome to BP - lots of people have definitely had success in the SC market for short term rentals - Myrtle Beach is showing up on a lot of hot STR market lists too this year

I can see/understand the zero/sum game.And copy on the focus for building during this time period.

Perhaps this was short sided, but the real benefit to us was that it cut our living costs by almost 50%. 

It looks like the only drawback is the approval process that need the lenders to approve the deals.I saw one short sell in my area and I wonder if any of you have already found a bad short sell deals ?

Period.

I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I want to do next and I keep coming back to the idea of either doing home flips, long term rentals, short term rentals, or a combination of them.

The ordinance requires 90 days or more to not fall within their short term rental ban.

I have done everything from house hacking, short term rentals, and flips.