If it works at all, it will have to be an S-corporation, not merely an LLC.3.

And I always check the actual price the guest pays- because I haven't yet build direct booking (it's on my list) and the final cost (on VRBO and Airbnb) usually makes me re-think things with a larger perspective.

“Nothing down” is a possible and legitimate way of structuring a real estate transaction, IF, there’s full disclosure to all parties involved and structure of the transaction is not merely a way to try to work around the problem of mortgage fraud.  

Equity in C/D located real estate is often merely paper equity...equity represented in an appraisal report that is less likely to materialize in an arms length transaction. 

Commissioner, 96 T.C. 858, @868 (1991), affd. 959 F.2d 16 (2d Cir. 1992).Merely holding the funds of another person in my own account is generally not a taxable act."

They really only differ in how the gains of those investments are credited to the policy holders.

It takes time to identify these properties  and often requires physical observation, not merely sitting behind a computer scanning through property listings, but they are out there.

I suspect even the banks who are aggressively expanding are doing so merely to sure up their geographical presence  to in order to expand their customer base but will then pull back on their branch numbers.Unless there is significant term remaining on the lease, there are other retail concepts that would be deemed more marketable.

This would be an S-corporation, not merely an LLC.

Something that separates them out from the merely nice Airbnbs.