It's certainly much harder now to cash flow while house hacking with high mortgage rates, but not impossible.

A good option might be a hard money loan for the front end at high leverage (15, 10, or at most 20% down) and then adding value and pulling out equity via a DSCR cash-out refinances qualified with AirDNA projections. 

A few suggestions, not for better search results, but these will help get guests who view your page to book - your first 5 photos should show an array of views, because when viewing on a laptop or desktop, all 5 are visible at the same time. 

Most truly individual private money lenders don't love construction for a number of reasons: - Time horizon on these projects is too long and the project itself highly speculative - Most construction loans are non-dutch, meaning you pay only on what funds are released and PMLs don't like having to earmark additional funds that aren't deployed and aren't earning a monthly interest on

The demand is pretty high for Pocono and we only have unique home rentals to stand out from others.

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

If you go through the MLS what you see are a TON of homes with high prices that are not pending sale.  

This friendship is already destroyed.When you do finally get them out, perform a walkthough and send them a bill for every repair that you do.

My wife and I currently have 2 single family long term rentals and would like to add this to the porfolio due to their 3% mortgage and high equity.

Some top performers lost only a little 5-10%, some lost over 40%.  2023-2024 YoY so far is up 15% but ADR is down.