Over the last several years, The United States printed 1/3 of the money supply.  

@Matteo Girlando one thing to consider is find private money, make a cash purchase and let it season if your lender has any title seasoning requirements.

I know people with huge door counts who lose money every month.

Chicken and the egg.A non-refundable earnest money deposit, or option purchase, might help you get it under contract.

With short term investing too, if you have a popular property, I would say that rates almost do not matter because you are making so much money!

To me, that's a LOT of money to pay.

If your plan is to make money on this investment, the more amenities you offer, the more people will want to stay at your property.

If you see a $220k listing for a duplex where each rent is $1000/month you see immediately that this deal is CLOSE TO 1% and that with negotiation or other improvements in rent or savings in expenses could meet or exceed that.

I sponsor a few people, as a broker that do apartment locating and I will do it from time to time if there is good money to be made.

Quote from @Kyle Peters: One of the ways to make money in real estate is to buy an asset that has been neglected and then turn it around.