More context is I'm planning to buy and hold this for a while and even with the cost of a new roof added on top of the purchase price it's coming in pretty competitively in terms of comps in a hot market.

You want to be competitive but also make sure you’re covering your costs and hitting your financial goals.How Can I Make Sure That I Do Not Rent the Home Out Under Market Value?

It's a higher priced rent but very desired location, updated, and compares favorably to others listed in the area --- and still priced competitively.

I have zero competition right now 

Before you make your decision, check  Furnished Finder to see what the competition looks like and how many have wide open calendars to get a sense of supply & demand.

But remember that you have to furnish the whole place to the tee to crush it on STR in the Austin area, there is a lot of competition.

I haven't done my first deal in real estate yet, so I feel this gives me a competitive advantage going in with regard to scaling. 

That's great but now lets get to the real world of new agents struggling to survive and how they operate.CASH is KING.Show them the money.Right or wrong on how to sell a property has many opinions.As a seller you should look at all legal advantages to out sell your property over the competition as in many markets it is a buyers market.As a head broker I can put a co-op of 4 and still save 2 percent.Heck I can put it at 6 co-op.I don't care if I factored that in as a cost and a game plan going in.

Should the government now dump all those foreclosures from those areas on to the market, it will lower rents further, creating more foreclosures as the property owners will have even more competition from Uncle Sam, and thus not get enough rent to cover their mortgages, and hang on to their homes.I don't know why when this whole mess started, if government wanted to "help", they didn't encourage banks to rewrite loans to 50 yr. terms, thus lowering payments, and helping stop the massive foreclosures, and destruction of the housing industry.

This provision sets forth that the usury limit on personal loans at 16% or the T-Bill rate set for non-competitive T-Bills.In addition to all of these provisions about usury limits, the statutes of North Carolina actually set no usury limitations specifically for personal loans that are above $25,000.Pretty confusing I know.