I like using the same mortgage broker lender who is investor friendly, a lot of the little banks don't know how to handle rental income and you get issues with underwriting mid deal.

Can you do two rental properties with the 400,000 in your market?

No financials, no info specific to the batch of land belonging to your parcel. 

I've been studying videos and personally gone through these nightmare pop-up expenses via my rental properties so it's been actually helpful in my journey trying to find my own home to live in.

After being occupied a year even with a good tenant it is not in the same move-in condition as a unit that is on the rental market.  

Rental history? 

As Bruce mentioned, simply open a bank account specifically for the rental property and run everything through there. 

I would like to rent it out to traveling nurses or corporate rentals since there is a very large Navy Base there and also 2 hospitals.

These would be my first rentals. 

I am wanting to start investing in STR acquiring or developing the real estate. I think Bend is a top place for STR as there is multi-seasonal demand and is a city with a lot of growth. Problem here is, apart from the...