There are 4 partners plus 2 others that do maintainence and lawn & snow.

But then again, here in Atlanta people don't have to walk through 4 feet of snow to go look at a house.

So far it has survived some minor floods while it sat vacant for a time (a leaking 50-gallon water heater and also some water infiltration due to a bank of snow outside atop a drain that wasn't working).For the price, I don't think it's too good for a rental if you own a nice rental, as is the case here.

It snows me.

I would hate to buy a house in Nov/Dec that needed work that I couldn't complete until March/April, depending how much cold and snow we get this year (farmers almanac is predicting a bad one, and last year was worse than most).

Taylor,Another viable option would be the traditional method of calling previous landlords.

We are the new future and we are not going to let tradition stand.

Typically for FHA loans it's better to go with a realtor (see you already got connected with some good ones on BP) as there is quite a bit of paperwork and extra things that you need to go through that aren't part of a traditional loan.

If i were to go with traditional financing, how can i come up with money to rehab the home?

The problem really comes down to the fact that the majority of these vacation rental platforms are not designed for enterprise use (because they're marketed towards consumers), so there's multiple proprietary systems to try to map out for someone to sync them all, rather than being built to map with the GDS (global distribution system) platforms that more traditional booking engines (Expedia, Booking.com, Travelocity, etc) use.