I am personally aiming for a traditional mortgage at the maximum time allotted payback (30 year fixed) with 15% percent down on a ~110K loan.

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Domuso is a strong platform for property managers. 

Be it in traditional schooling, or the school of hard knox.

Traditional methods with bank

If you are investing out of state and want traditional, inexpensive Fannie/Freddie loans, you'll need $80k to $100k. 

A simple but modern website on an all in one platform should run you about $150-$250 per year including domain and business emails.

decide one day to directly compete as STR platforms...

@Brandon Kalker we don't use traditional loans with BRRRR properties.  

The great thing about technology is that it will get cheaper and cheaper to do it, whereas traditional staging can't be discounted as much.