A great market with no friends, family, or the ability to do the things you love wont keep you engaged over the long-term. 

I thought, for sure, the hotel would charge me for the linens that I thought I had destroyed but they most graciously treated it as a cost of doing business...) 

Are you saying that I wont be able to do a refinance?

The covid 19 pandemic destroyed the airbnb short term rental business and we are happy to make the switch. 

You wont' know what you can buy it for until the servicer completes a valuation and the short sale review is open. 

Basically what it means is that the lender wont look at any income from you, they will only determine if the rents will cover the proposed PITI mortgage payment.

I hear mostly manager horror stories, and after spending 30 years building this don't want to see it destroyed by a bad move.Some thoughts i have tossed around - retiring from the military. i love serving but it is a commitment.

These homes go onto a spreadsheet where i give the client a rough estimate of the mortgage payment, the homes condition, and my estimate of what a reasonable rent price would be.If the agent doesn’t know anything about investing and wont even give you rough estimates, please move on to an agent who knows better.

Also we had fires in the mountain communities up the McKenzie this year, and many hundreds of homes, whole communities, were destroyed.

If so, you are good to go, if not, that property wont work for the FHA loan.As to the questions of what could go wrong, well being a young buyer, do you have the credit and scores to get approved for the loan.