Long term opportunity in phenominal location How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

After that, it becomes long-term capital gain.

Short-term sacrifices and delaying gratification will bring you abundance later in life.Definitely take advantage of your first-time home buying benefits and consider house hacking a duplex or 4-plex.

In short, no, it is not a bad time to start investing.

So, there is a premium demanded by the property owner to lease his property short term rather than long term.

We run a debt fund and focus on short-term mezzanine funding mainly. 

Have you had success there?

Those having some success with REI in the New Orleans area are getting deals direct to seller and using creative REI techniques.  

I've found Kiavi a bit better for the short term fix & flip (lower fees) and LendingOne a bit better for the 30 year DSCR (lower rate). 

I have been working full-time RE,  BRRRR method on single-family homes in my local area for the past 4 years.  22 homes completed-  (2 sold) 20 long term rented.