I'm gonna keep this short and simple: If you want free leads of absentee owners follow this method..if you know your market: go to gosection8.com and text all the landlords on the site something like "I see you own a property on 123 street I'm looking to invest in the area would you be open to possibly selling a property?"

Just read yesterday that a landlord in Miami is facing fines of $20,000 because his tenant did short term rentals.

This avoids short-term rental restrictions and makes property management reasonable.

I am about to get into the REI game here very shortly and I am serious about achieving my long term goals.

I feel like my understanding of the business has increased substantially in these 3 short months but I believe it is now time to take the next step and get myself out there.

If it is a great property that will cash flow well you can delay putting in new windows for a bit and then with the extra cash flow have to ability to pay for the windows in a pretty short time frame.

I am a real estate investor, short term rentals (Airbnb), and looking to acquire additional properties in the near term. 

Also, you should look for opportunities to buy below market and force some appreciation, so that you are not 100% dependent on cash flow to make all your returns, you will be insulated to some degree from short term market fluctuations, you create multiple profitable exit strategies for yourself, and your cash flow numbers should also improve to boot.

In short, I don't have much.

If sub 10 years and you want to sell the cap rate starts rising because buyer cannot get good loan terms from lender and must buy cash or put a lot down with a short amortization schedule.6 cap for franchisee is not good.