Seems to be straight.

I’ve been studying the past few months, but I really want to take action now and jump straight into Airbnb (the rental arbitrage model).

Hey @Lexie Greenheck, your sitution should be straight forward for most CPAs out there. 

I can get you an AVM value if you want to send me the details.Also, for what it's worth, we order dozens of appraisals in Houston every month and even our favorite appraisers are charging us $1k+ and quoting us 2 month lead times for straight down the middle deals.

I can piggyback off of the above replies and also throw out that for straight commercial properties, Columbus is very investor friendly in terms of getting anchor companies to sign leases with incentives to bring jobs.

It might require getting somewhat of a head start as far as speed while still being able to stop before entering the road and hoping the rear wheels have reached the existing asphalt.If we buy this property and parking or driveway become an issue and we decide to go ahead and sell it some weeks down the road, will we have to disclose the driveway issue?

If you think you can get it done just on a conventional loan, then consult with your loan officer being honest with full disclosure of what needs to be done, they can even consult with underwriting ahead of time and let you know if the loan will fly as a conventional loan.Be the solution provider and because of it you will be the winning bidder.  

Then I started the deep dive into trying to understand property investing as I thought there must be a way to get ahead in this world.

This means that we have NO money into the property( in fact, plus 8k), and are getting straight cashflow from the solid tenants.

I totally understand the time restrictions, but also think it is unethical for a broker to expect my company to show up on-time and then have to hang around one or twp extra hours because there are representative from two brokerage firms at the property, the seller is at the property, several other companies are there doing inspections and I have to be polite and stand around for 1 or 2 hours waiting find out who is who while multiple groups are having in-depth conversations, I have to wait to find out what they want, where things are at, get permission to move things, get permission to open things and then can't get in a word to discuss my inspection.When I see one other person at a property that is for sale I walk away because there is a lot of straight out bullsh..., promises and lies at home inspections.