Too often STR owners are looking at extremely high occupancy rates like nothing will ever change.

With current rents and purchase price, it has a cap rate of 8%.

My goal: create an interest-free loan which is appealing to a potential homebuyer, yet doesn't make too big of a discount on my end.For example: If I sold my $300,000 house with 20% down ($60,000) over 30 years, at 6.7% interest rate: $1548.67 principal and interest per month1548.67 x 12 x 30 = $557,521.20What I would do would offer a lower monthly payment and no usury, but it would effectively be like a prepayment penalty.Arbitrarily, let's say 20% off the monthly payment, or $309.73 less per month: $1238.94 monthly payment.House would be sold at $446,018.40, which is $111,502.8 less than the total paid with a normal mortgage, but $116,018 more than the market price.

Your “overhead” costs to buy & sell the house + holding costs, interest, property taxes etc, luckily these can be pretty easily calculated, many websites like closing companies will have websites where you can fill out information about a property and it will tell you the costs to buy & sell, loan costs are easily calculable, take your purchase multiply by intrest rate divide by 12, that’s your monthly expenses multiply by the number of months you project the to complete, a good rule of thumb is even cosmetic can easily be 6 months anything more complicated can be 9-12 though all that can very greatly.3.

Banks and CU have something called "High Cost" rules which means a mortgage under $75K generally is not large enough to include or finance their hard costs plus fee's.Some DSCR lenders offer a $75K minimum after down payment but rates are usually above 9.75% even with good credit and carry a 2-3 year prepayment penalty. 

I think the general consensus with todays rates and prices is that cash flow is not that amazing in any market. 

And we live in CA so our tax rates are high.

In my experience, the best rates and terms for home equity products are from credit unions.

MLS, I had the other agent rep me and we decreased the purchase price since we received dual agency representation.

Interest rates are really high compared to those of recent years.