While rent growth in 2022 is still higher than any previous year on record, it is the fourth month in a row year-over-year rent growth declined,” note Yardi Matrix analysts.Yardi Matrix said rents are forecast to increase at slower rates for the rest of 2022 as the economy “cools off.”Inflation rates will take a while to ebb, “causing consumers to cut into savings and their ability to afford increasing rental rates will lessen as the year goes on,” states the latest report.Meanwhile, rents in the single-family build-to-rent (BTR) sector continue to grow and reached another all-time high of $2,071 after climbing $23 in June.

The City has provided water/sewer to the property; you may not be using/consuming the services but the property has the lines in place - and that's exactly what you want. 

If there are multiple credit card or cell phone companies with collection or past due balances, or recent car repos, charged off accounts, returned checks, judgments or evictions, and those type of "consumer credit" issues, then I have a big concern.

From my understanding, STR are more time-consuming.

Get a "business" credit card for business expenses, not a consumer card.  

It was definitely time consuming to fill out all of the paperwork and go through the public hearing, but in the end yes it was worth the effort.

I have also heard stories about the lack of consumer protections of Venmo and Zelle -- like reversing transactions, etc.  

Some of the larger builders to have a policy of not negotiating price or upgrades at all with a consumer, while they will with an agent.

Raising the prime lending rate negatively impacts commercial borrowing power and the cost of consumer goods.

Rezoning and separating all the utilities will be extremely costly and time consuming.