You have to have a eye brow raising amount of listings to be red flagged by air bnb.

If I am to use a realtor (I am not one, by the way) I want them to answer my calls, return the calls of interested parties, set up escrow, order title, QUALIFY buyers before telling me they "have an offer coming", give a critical eye to the property that I may have over looked, suggest a marketing plan beyond the MLS listing and a sign, get the listing into websites beyond the MLS, stop by the property weekly to see that it presents well, tell other agents about the property, have a list of people they can call telling them that a "new, groovy" property has just hit the MLS, live & breath my property until it gets sold.

That was an eye opener.

Congrats also on doing a solo deal belly to belly with the seller.A couple of my takeaways as a dusty old LL thinking more of selling than buying these days-1) When you sell a property in a different market as an absentee owner, you may be a motivated seller and get creamed by a local investor. 2) Don't accept VA or FHA loans from your buyer.

I should add that being able to kind of get into the minds of these investors had been extremely eye opening and very inspiring.

@Eric Moreno  Excellent job staying focused and dedicated and keeping your eye on the prize! 

The whole argument here boils down to the single fact of how to go about using the wife's name on title and mortgage for the 3rd home to qualify her in the eyes of bank as a "primary residence loan" holder to get the lowest possible interest rate when genuinely - she will be living with her husband in that 3rd home and is not doing any mortgage fraud. 

my name is Juan and I will be 28 years old this month (WOOHOOO) I am from Plainfield IL, and let me just start by saying that BiggerPockets has LITERALLY opened my eyes extremely wide.

I wrote The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods so out of state folks don't end up making risky moves based on looking at our market with those out of state eyes.

I actually had my eye on a duplex in Atlantic Beach that bid that same day.