Purchase price: $213,500 Cash invested: $20,716 Short term rental on Table Rock Lake near Branson, MO.

This way, the cleaning fee gets sent directly to the cleaners, and now we only get our percentage of the nightly rate instead of going back and forth with the owners collecting cleaning fees.I own and manage a few short-term rentals in Indian Rocks Beach, Largo, and Seminole.

Surprised Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg is not on this list.Places like Joshua Tree are popular but also very saturated. 

Geographically- Hutto is placed better than Kyle, for the fact that its accessible to multiple smaller suburbs Pf, Manor, Georgetown, Round Rock and Taylor!

Another idea is talk to title companies to see who's the most popular real estate agent and buyer who comes into their office all the time.

As for the HELOC, the more I research the more it matches your comment regarding using it for home improvements / flips so I may sit on that for a little bit until I educate myself further on those topics.As for raising capital, I have read the private lenders are a popular way and hard money loans which I do not fully understand yet.

OP should have rock-solid comp's for ARV BEFORE entering flip.

I’m considering Round Rock and Pflugerville as top options.

Any sense of FF loosing popularity?

We’re 10 minutes from a popular lake and my current str has surpassed my expectations.