We used a conventional mortgage loan to buy the house and a credit card for building materials.

With no experience in STRs yet, I’d say give yourself the best chance to win by ensuring you have enough capital to buy and invest in a property that guests will want to pay you more than everyone else for because of those decisions you made on timing and acquisition.my two cents!

@Terrell Garren in New England your HVAC guy sends you a “thank you card” picture of his kids graduation from his fully paid off ivy college :)

The nice thing about the LLC is since it is its own legal entity, you should have created  a bank account for it and possible credit cards. 

You pay for professional photographs, you pay 3% credit card fees, and you pay anywhere from 8 to 11 percent for each reservation on VRBO or Airbnb.

It's a win-win.In addition, the listing agent often has to do significantly work to keep a transaction on track when there is no buyer's agent managing that side of the deal. 

It's a win-win for you at this point. 

It's been a win-win all around. 

Can't win deals without making offers.  

I mean that in a nice way and only ask because too often I feel like we (myself) included put the cart before the horse with regards to opening LLCs, getting business cards, etc.Also, I think entity structure might be somewhat location-dependent.