Our broker mentioned that the average interest rate is 7.5-9% and they have never seen the rates drop below 7%.

The only downside to these is they are typically higher interest rates and shorter terms. 

After doing this, I then run the property through Airdna.co and/or Mashvisor.com  Both of these tools will give you projections of what type of rental rates, price per night, bookings, occupancy, seasonal variations, etc. 

So one by one they halved the values and almost doubled the tax rate.

I look for low crime rates, good schools, high rent to value ratios sometimes as high as the 3% rule. 

The conventional loan rate was 7.625% for 30- years on a selling price of $100k What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Guess what since previous weak tenant was market rent you are losing your ***.I look at high cap stuff when it's few years left ( blend and extend ) or it can be weaker tenant at higher cap rate like 10 cap BUT I want them paying about half the going market rent for the building size or less in that market.

In either case, I'd be looking at markets with a growing population (demand), a shortage of inventory (supply), and a market that has a net positive importing of jobs with wage growth.As the Fed's a poised to make some moves with interest rates later this year, the question still remains to be seen what they will do with their QE/QT policy on their balance sheet as that will affect long term 1-4 unit rates. 

Their needs vary over time and the market interest rate varies.

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