The gurus said there would be a ding on the credit report, but historically, the shutdown would end soon.

Welcome to you and your husband.The restoring of historic properties throughout SC sounds amazing.  

I think sometimes rentometer can get skewed from older historical rental data IDK.

Historically, I have used an paid a real estate service.  

During the walk through, my wife fell in love with the house's historical charm.

Granted, being a multifamily syndicator and investor myself, I am biased; yet, when it comes to real estate investing, multifamily continues to live up to its reputation of being one of the historically safest and most reliable asset classes there is.

@Cesar VilledaBeginning investors need to STOP believing all the fluff about rental investing, especially with the overheated real estate market trending to historic norms.

Which BTW has been historically cheap debt, BUT the interest costs just went up, a lot. 

They will use historical data from your tax returns instead of the potential rent that a DSCR lender requires.

AirDNA is certainly the most comprehensive data source to see aggregated occupancy, nightly rates, and revenue estimates.However, keep in mind that AirDNA is using historical data (from the past 1-2 years) and those years were anomolies due to the pandemic.