Investing in the right neighborhoods can increase your odds of success.Also if you look at the appreciation rate in Cleveland and Dayton over the past 10 years its actually quite similar to the cities of Columbus.But I do see your point of being careful in "declining population cities".

They built out the infrastructure of the land in 2023 but never collected their applied for permits to actually build homes.

From my understanding, as long as you intend on doing a STR when you close, there are no rules against changing your strategy after closing, especially if you find that something else is more profitable.So in our case, the lender determined an STR would bring in ~$3500/month (with all of their conservative factors), but now that we operate it as a huge 3300 sqft Co-Living property, it actually brings in $7000/month.

@Christina Galdieri Sorry, the actual location doesn't matter.

In many cases, this solves your problem, either they start complying or they actually move out!!!!!

(you need to differentiate when a Mark Spain type company is running radio ads to attract business for themselves from it actually helping you out)4) Our TEAM or BROKERAGE has sold "X" homes! 

How many Due on Sale clauses have you actually seen enforced?

We don't bait and switch, we work deals based on actual details of the client's specific deal.

So, the actual increase to market rent will be much lower.

You can actually look it up.