Otherwise, having a conversation with them on how to handle things like this moving forward would be productive in seeing how they respond.

I'd find a mortgage broker who understands your strategy well enough to advise on products designed to help you scale. 

So I looked at it like 10% management fee up front that covers the assembly of the product and sales of the product to people like me. 

If the inexperienced investor knew how much work, effort, time, analysis, negotiation, organization, capital, and knowledge it takes to successfully find, identify, evaluate, and close on a property that fits the criteria that gurus falsely claim they see 100’s of every day, 99% of them would abandon their real estate dreams” and pursue ostrich farms, mink breeding, or setting up a “down line” to sell condensed cleaning products that their “upline” has an exclusive distributorship on for the southwestern quadrant of Bisbee, Arizona.  

I would keep and hold it for the long term, unless you can deploy that money in a much more productive investment. 

Agree with @Ian Ippolito 100% based on my experience in fund formation and product development in private alternatives. 

Since it is the product of a divorce proceeding the IRS will go along with the divorce decree.

I’m starting with just 1 listing but plan to recruit neighbors in my beach market to list on my custom website tailored to our community / market so I hope to be at 10+ listings soon even though I only own & operate 1 right now.Guesty’s pricing did not appear to be competitive and for someone starting with fewer than 4 units but planning to scale up behind that, Guesty does not offer a migration path from their “for hosts” product to their “for pros” version - it would have been a complete redo on setting everything up.

Great tools that get updated regularly.I am on the lending side of things and would be happy to hop on a call with you anytime to discuss financial strategies and help answer any questions you may have about nearly any loan product available to help you on your journey, even if they are not products my capital partners offer.We are all here to help you learn and grow.

I also think that demand for U.S. treasury bonds (which underpin most fixed rate permanent debt products) will dramatically decline over the next 20 years, which will cause interest rates writ large to substantially increase across the board.