The advice I've been given, and chosen to follow, is to utilize HELOCs for short-term investments, with a plan to pay them off in less than a year and to avoid holding them long-term.Do you know what the value of your recent rental property purchase is?  

The mess can attract mice and other pests.

Hard money is more suited for the first step of acquisition as a quick, short term loan. 

Hello BiggerPockets Community,I'm reaching out to find a like-minded equity partner interested in tapping into the dynamic and lucrative Atlanta real estate market, focusing specifically on short-term flips.

@Andrew Postell That's what I was thinking too and was also confused about because of course to make money with a short-term flip I would need to use forced appreciation aka renovations.

The main lesson I learned through this process was I attempted to turn the home into a full short term rental and was unsuccessful because I had not done proper research.

Purchase price: $580,000 Cash invested: $40,000Bought the house as a short short term rental investment.

Hello, does anybody know where to get reliable data on whether short term rentals are allowed according to the zoning map of East Orange, NJ?

Purchase price: $165,000 Cash invested: $110,000 Short term rental property on 9 acres.

Short-term rentals are my full-time gig, and I make a storm of money.