Agents will have to step up their game and be held accountable for all sides of their business now.

As many others have commented, doing a LTR on a new construction single-family home in Central Fl will likely pull cash out of your pocket for a couple of years once you account for vacancy, property management, and capex. 

Airdna numbers are way off this year and does not account for special features or unique features. 

I want to buy another one but my credit score recently tanked due to a collections filing from a property I rented.

Quote from Account Closedhary Jensen: Hey gang, One thing ive heard alot from folks lately about is how they are having their spouse qualify as real estate professional status, and getting the hours for it via having them "manage the property manager" and review financial statements (known as investorAccount Closed I would be interested to hear your take on what other things can make a person a 'real estate professional'?

Otherwise investing in the stock market or better yet, a high interest savings account (mine is at 5.5%) can actually be a safer bet.If you are set on condos, I would be looking in Ventura County.

I've got great credit, money to invest, and would love to chat with anyone who has ideas.

Does anyone know of any local credit unions that will do property investment mortgages in MD area?

We use a very cumbersome product built for 50+ unit PM Co's, but when we were smaller we used Guesty and liked it except they did not have trust accounting, which I think they do now.  

Then we go DSCR route, but DSCR can't account using room-to-room but using appraisal opinion.