I may build a few of those, including my personal home, to use as short-term rentals.

Some have short seasoning rules and limited LTV's while others are fine with short seasoning but have worse terms. 

The Austin Code Department is hosting a webinar today on short-term rentals & compliance.

I will be selling my home shortly and will receive about $70k in profit.

Where I'm at we have suburbs of suburbs, all pretty valid for a commute to a major area or commerce or employment.I'm curious of your overall thoughts on commercial property, however; this is the first time that I've seen commercial real estate listed on the BP forums in my short couple of months here so far. 

I will send you a message shortly to see about chatting, I do appreciate the warm welcome from all!

Rates will be more than conventional but less than a short term rehab loan.

If your lease isn't at least 5-10 pages it's too short and will cause you problems with tenants.

I never thought about saving first before investing  :/  Ironically enough I found "Building Wealth One House At A Time" on Amazon shortly after and had no idea it was also associated with Bigger Pockets.

Very different Counties and you will pay a premium for Howard County...you might look in Savage as it is a bit cheaper than the rest of Howard County...I dont know much about PG County other than it is going to be much cheaper.