What typically is the showstopper for investors is thinking they can get 100% financing for acquisition and any work on the property - which essentially is an unsecured loan or a very large credit card. 

Medium Term Rental, typically furnished like a STR but minimum of 30 days.

Waiting until six months allows you to get typically 75% of the new appraised value. 

Landlords typically want someone working on their property that’s properly licensed and insured but then you’re gonna let a tenant who may or may not know with doing work on the property that more than likely doesn’t have any licensing or insurance.

As you know with both strategies there are different types of properties you'd want to operate with depending on your investment style. 

Purchase price: $2,300,000We own and operate a boutique hotel downtown niantic.

Once they have the down payment (typically about 25% in today's market), If my clients are looking to buy investment properties and hold them longer term, they will use DSCR loans which are loans that don't use the borrower income and are based on the rental income, the down payment and the borrower credit score. 

And HELOCs are re-usable, so i can save that 2.5% origination fee for multiple use in the next 5 years.Alternatively I could go learn the typical way and deal with HML, build a network.

You can then offset these operational losses against your income.However, if you're having a great year income wise with no losses to offset then you would not want to take a commission. 

They said there is no single main operator, each 6 GPs have their own strengths and  will be in charge of different parts of the operation.