I believe our market also poses unique challenges as compared to other markets (due to structural issues here, I believe most investors underestimate cap ex, for example).  

In fact, I wrote about a rather unique one that I have made several investments with, and they welcome all investors:Have I Found the Holly Grail of Passive Real Estate Investing?

Interested in any thoughts on which areas of Baltimore are best for buy-and-hold investors, and unique issues in B'more versus other areas.

It's very much worth a look to get a better understanding of all the above issues.That Said…We should keep helping each other out in this awesome BiggerPockets community - it's very unique and valuable - to keep each other updated on the ever-changing local regulations of short term rentals (and everything else real estate - there are more changes ahead of us.

All problems when dealing with real estate buying and selling become unique...Good luck with getting it done...

I am in kind of a unique situation with my seller, as he is an attorney overseeing a bankruptcy case and multiple homes within the bankruptcy.

I've been toying with the idea of getting into REI but have not taken the lead yet.

A few unique components of residual income compared to DTI is that they count childcare expenses based mostly on your tax returns, and the square footage of the property determines a maintenance budget (agents think I'm crazy for putting max square footage on my VA loan preapproval letters, but hey it has a legit purpose).VA guidelines are so crazy that I've seen predatory HML model their qualifications on VA so later on when they are sued for predatory lending they can say "but we're just doing it like the VA!

we have toyed with the idea of providing home inspections up front but we have received mixed reviews by taking a poll on this subject.

I though it was a neat unique niche.