The three pillars that qualify a DSCR loan, your credit score, loan to value, and the DSCR score ( gross rent / PITI(a)) - getting preapproved should be no problem as long as you have enough down payment, usually 20%, closing costs, and reserves. .

Doesn't hurt to look, @Timothy Douglas, just know that deals there and on places like LoopNet are usually picked over already.

But I also have many 2/1s attached to studios where I make the 2/1 pay the entire bill and their rent is discounted 100$ to market which usually ends up in them profiting a bit monthly.

I usually schedule my closings 30 days out.

Having a mentor is great, but paying for a mentorship program/guru type thing usually just gets you into a boiler room of constant up-selling to higher levels of ripping you off.

People that work for you as a closer usually wouldn't have their name anywhere on the contract, etc, you are just paying them based upon your commission agreement with them.  

-Booking.com is a very large and established company that has been around much longer than airbnb and vrboCons:-more listings to make sure are all staying maintained assuming you are also on airbnb and vrbo-you have to pay them their commission back at the end of each month which is a pain in the a** and is an unnecessary extra step-payouts can take longer as you mentioned-it has been impossible for me to find anyway to contact customer service over the phone and instead you have to refer to their forums and FAQs for any answers you need.Hope you found this helpful.

Condos don't appreciate much, and townhouses are sort of in the middle and usually cap out at a certain price.

Diversity is usually the best in the STR industry so if one area is lacking you can always tap into the stronger property. 

could you take the 40k extra after paying back the private money lender and roll that into another deal thus needing to borrow less private money next time?