It seems like that would eat into my margins a lot. 

Some owner/aggregators tried to throw more tech at the process; some owner/operators didn’t care because they were building machines to only eat equity.

It seems like nothing cash flows unless I do a STR, and decorating an Airbnb alone eats up a large chunk of my cash.

.), helping them with their bills, while also paying for a beach house STR that is not covering it's own expenses (thank God summer is on the way), and I am carrying $64k in credit card debt with interest that is eating my lunch.  

They need to be sending the info through, if not, change vendor, or have them eat the liability there conveying. 

2) If there are liens on the property and the seller is not willing to negotiate, does that mean that either I or the buyer have to eat the cost? 

You have a different set of circumstances than the 20 something who can couch surf and eat only ramen to get a downpayment.

Stop by, eat lunch.

@Lorien Rollins Where I live a lot of people with nicer SFHs are now listing them with Realtors to get them on the MLS and just eating the 1 mo fee as being cheaper than having it sit vacant for 3-4 months while they try to market it themselves.

You pay the whole bill and set a fixed rate for each unit and some months you will be over, some under - you end up eating the cost/reaping the benefit month to month.