We actually have the option to STR on a few of our properties and decline to do so because we make more money than an LTR on our medium-term rental with a lot less work than an STR.The pros to medium-term rentals: high occupancy rate, no local regulation issues if you are 30+ days, elevated rents, more and more people are staying longer, often the midterm rental tenant pool is professional. 

You could get into technical sides of things, like how to imbed and track pixels from ads through to lead capture forms, email click through rates, A/B testing, open rates, conversion rates, lead acquisition costs, customer acquisition costs, headline/subject line writing, etc.On the persuasion side: The Catalyst by Jonah Berger, The Jolt Effect by Matthew Dixon, but there are also countless sales training, sales psychology, influence people, type books out there.

It just becomes a marketing and pricing issue. 

Just make sure you ask your lender and tell them in writing you're doing that - they can technically call the note due (both my lenders said it was ok to have the title changed to an LLC) but this doesn't happen often.

The major issue is that the some windows are moldy and some have rotted frames.

Giovanni, I do it very similar to Scott, although all mine are posted as cash offers, although I have a very close relationship with my HML, and he always takes care of my proof of funds, and I honestly have never had an issue with this or ever been questioned, and I have done purchases from all sorts of sources including Fannie.

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Can we deduct the office as a business expense since its sole purpose is working, or would splitting the use between a W2 job and rentals create an issue? 

Properties are exchanged into the reit, the sell gets unit shares (partnerships don’t technically have shares).  

Ours was an occasional rain issue in one corner and also a bit of an uneven floor.