I know it sounds like I'm splitting hairs but some banks write HELOCs in their residential department....which won't write Investment Properties.

Anything where I don't deal with a HOA would add years to my life and take grey from my hair....

:-)Commercial lending is not as cut and dry as residential.

The building has four LTRs, a hair salon, and the unit I want to use for STR.

The real issue is there is almost no way for someone to have a safe, clean, dry place to eat, sleep and keep some personal things for under $800 per month. 

Of course then you may have to give an investor hair cut rather than selling each one separately and getting top dollar.But if you're willing to watch your calendars you can sell each one and start a separate exchange with each and combine them into fewer more expensive purchases. 

I am very exciting to have found this website, after spending the past 2 weeks pulling my hairs out trying to figure out the pieces to Real Estate Investing.INTRODUCTIONA little bit about myself, I am totally new to this whole Real Estate investing arena, at best 2 weeks of experience.  

Real estate is just another problem for us to figure out.On the flip side we tend to be more introverted and small-c conservative than sales and marketing types, so we struggle with those parts of the business.I think you also get to a point in engineering where you have to decide whether to stay on a technical path or go over to the pointy-haired dark-side of management.

They went to a coding boot camp and now work in IT, and I searched high and low for some sort of job that wouldn't make me tear my hair out and landed in the finance world.

They could bri an extra set of clothes to swap in to and wash and dry their dirty clothes if you want that tested too.