After that, start buying rentals based purely on spread sheets and leverage them—never borrow against or sell what you currently own.   

There is certainly no one-size-fits-all here.Going ahead with a college education can be purely a business decision to many...what is the ROI?

If we look purely at numbers, yes you need more money to get started in NY, but it goes beyond that.

This is pure gold, thank you for sharing your experience and the numbers!

Appraisals are purely impacted by traditional Real Estate criteria, while STR = Real Estate + Tourism.

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Or are they purely focused on the landlord-tenant interaction?  

I am purely looking for cash flow.  

@Keegan DarbyThis is the joys of ownership and responsibility unfortunately falls on the business owner.You could chat with insurance but probably not worth it as the deductible versus cost may not be worth it

Changing your placements though can be helpful for this, I like to keep my placements purely on Facebook for this objective because the audience network doesn't let you track actual video views which can skew the numbers as well.