Do HOA's have legal authority to restrict, by % or number, units that can be rental and insist that a sale be only owner occupant?

I did not read any of his books , but I can only say good things from the youtube videos he posted.I wished most of the authors were like him.

To compare, I looked into rental furniture for doing the staging set up ourselves.

In my opinion you should look anyway to compare rates. 20% seems high but again, I'm not in the vacation rental arena so that my be normal.

Compare GLA to GLA not total SF to total SF.

No equity deals are IMHO 1. sub 2 purchase and rent out2. lease option and assign the deal for $5K+3. master lease if there is a cash flow comparing PITI /Rent monthlyHappy to hear other opinions/options for OP.

If you do have some concern have your agent pull up sold and pending comparables in the last 90 days, within a 1 to 2 mile radius of your home.

But that three percent is nothing compared to the low offers I'll get by sending the deal to the volume rehabbers or advertising it as FSBO.

Is this because the NE is that much more expensive when compared to other markets?

It's just sometimes it's not what the author had in mind.