I do not have one year of rental history and working with my lender who also has a large portfolio says my rate would be high without that first year of rental history. 

At the end of the day, respect the business!!!!!!

I am also getting 10k seller credit from seller, and could either use that one to buy down interest rate or just pay off the closing cost. the lender is giving me few option one with higher fund at closing and lower interest rate, and one with lower fund at closing with higher interest rate (about 0.2% difference) With the high interest rate right now, do you think it is better to do higher interest rate, and refinance later or should I just try to get as low as interest rate as possible and do not worry about refinance ? 

I have been running some hypothetical use cases and been comparing the returns with more traditional investment assets, and there must be something that I'm doing wrong because it doesn't add up for me.Scenario 1 - 9.5% Yield vs Stock at 6%: 5 year 12k note with 9.5% Yield, this means 60 payments of 252.02 for an end valance of $15,121.2 which gives me an annualized return of 4.73%.

In the current market with the prices of homes being so high does it still make sense to be investing in real estate or to be accumulating cash and waiting to see where the market goes? 

STR's require immaculate staging, marketing, and appeal to younger, high-earning audiences who will happily pay $300-500 / night for a "unique experience".

End of the day, you have to make sure your tenants can afford to live in your property and can pay out of pocket expenses.

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With school scores at 3/2/2 and what seems to be significant risk involved, an investor might consider better options like investing in a high-yielding savings account earning 5.5% without the associated risks.

I agree with the local experts, it's not usually a big deal, but I've seen some pretty high estimates, but normally they're $500-2k jobs at most and they shouldn't hold up the deal, like James said, but the buyer will have to assume the violations if the seller is not fixing them before hand.