Yes, The way it works is you can take out 80% LTV based on the purchase price and any repairs or receipts as a total.

 Where you’re based and where you invest (or plan to invest)- I'm based in Dallas, Tx where I was born an raised.

Done and done.If you realize that those above topics are pretty much everything about Self Storage AND you learn those three (precursory will work, in-depth is better), you've got all your bases covered.  

If I'm in your shoes, I recommend chatting with some local investors (attend a few meetups) to get a good sense of whats possible and not based on others that have a similar W2 scenario as yours. 

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We take this to mean (based on 100s of real tax court cases) any activities integral to the business of running a rental.

Without having MLS access it's more difficult, but can be done :) I would not go in with numbers based solely on hopeful STR analytics.

Ask for a comparison based on the current coverage and also any recommendations for better coverage. 

Then negotiate based on that.

Analyzing 1 year of data from: 2014-12-20 - 2015-12-20Total Properties Sold: 4887Properties Sold to Plaintiff (back to bank): 3155Properties Sold Third Party (real people): 1147Properties Sold Unknown type: 585Percentage of properties sold to third party: 23.5%Based on the analysis of the properties that were sold to third parties it is also possible to see how much the properties were sold for compared to their market value or some other trait.