One difficulty I have in my market, especially close to the campus of a large university,  is that it's difficult to add equity.  

There is also going to be difficulty for my new tenants to get their furniture and upstairs due to the spiral staircase hallways and thin walkways.

I’m currently working with a lawyer who says he can do it but he’s been making it stressful and difficult I don’t know why.

How difficult is it to obtain investor financing for multiplex - how much needed for reserves and down payment?

However, it makes sense if they are more for student housing, disabled, elderly, or homeless, financially challenged people who would have difficulty paying the deposits to turn on utilities. 

It also often make settlement to the insurance limit easier due to the difficulty to pierce its veil and reach other asset.  

The issue I’m running into is I’m having a lot of difficulty searching the MLS for these specific communities as they often break up into other communities and it’s hard to distinguish what road is still apart of the particular resort.

These help me weather a storm with low STR occupancy numbers like many are facing across the country.Higher insurance rates, STR permit fees, labor costs for repairs and cleaning, regime fees (for condos) make running a profitable STR even more difficult.  

I owned a property on the Encore resort and had to sell it as the costs or taxes and the difficulty getting the guests through the prefered property management companies was very difficult.  

Disclosure is key in my book and telling your end buyer that the contract is subject to you taking title before they close is also key.There may be some ways to avoid using transactional funding (a bridge loan, nothing illegal there) but I see too many grey areas and difficulties in doing so, at least here in CA, and in a few other states.Great topic and thread guys and gals, let's keep this going and now that I am aware of it's presence, would like to join in the discussion with my $.02Will Barnard in Sunny CA