Treat your STR business as a business, and spend your smart-earned money vacationing where you can truly vacation.

I am looking for a brokerage that is investor-friendly (having investor-minded agents, and a focused investor clientele), use more of modern marketing technology, provide training or mentoring for new agents, and have agents and brokers working in office to bounce ideas.

Transunion has a Smart Move app that gets you credit reports with recommendation.

I know all the debates of throwing money away on rent vs owning but for someone like me who doesn't want to be locked into anything it makes more sense for me to rent.Personally I think in the future people will require more flexibility in their lives with things like gig economies, rapidly changing technology and the nature of work, etc, so this could even be a growing trend over time.  

Do you think it’s smart to have the PM lender pay cash for the house to get a better purchase price and then refinance it to get a bulk of their cash back?

This is 2018, and with today's technology and on demand economy it is possible. 

I believe there are lots of opportunities with the interior but my whole point behind this discussion was that in the end, condos should be purchased in lesser prices as the profit margin is a bit thin, as many members have agreed.It's just that, you should be smart enough to make your move and a bit experienced too.

Just depends on the level of knowledge of a holdover tenant.If they know a similar property will rent for 1,200 a month and you are offering 1,200 to move now but they have a ton of trash to clean up,deposits,moving truck etc. then they will stay put.If the courts are backed up it could take 3 months to get out.They save 3,600 that way and leave you the trash.Again it all comes down to how smart the holdover tenant is and you won't know that until you approach them.Even if they agree to cash for keys I would still file eviction to keep the heat on them in case they change their mind.

because a smart agent that works for me sent me the link laughing because this guy doesn't have a clue.

But first, let's go get those pieces of paper that tell us that we're smart enough to do so!