We had full approval from three different banks before we made a decision.

I highly suggest teaming up with a broker who truly understands the ins and outs of different underwriting guidelines.

Send me a DM and I'll let you know a bit more about some different strategies that I'm using right now to find true off market deals. 

Once in the past, I used an Ozone machine to help with the smoke smell and it did make a difference.

Called and emailed several departments/people with every new person that finally replied sending me to a different person/department.

Generally easy to fix.If you're thinking about changing to completely different window coverings, you will need to take down the head rail and patch the holes in the wall and perhaps repaint.

You'll find each shop is very, very different with most simply focusing on good old-fashioned Fannie, Freddie, FHA, VA, and USDA.

I know people have differing opinions on AirDNA's accuracy.

Then you have to coordinate with different people with little to no professional background or even background checks.

It is an area we frequently visit, so it would be easy for us to check on our property when in town and we like the idea of investing "in our backyard" for our first property before branching out into different markets.