So it sounds like there is indeed a market for such a product, if it actually delivered what it promised: A perpetually up-to-date database of all STR related regulations for every municipality nation-wide, with a filterable map-like interface. 

Do the hosts ever come at it from that angle? 

And I’d also love to learn more about your experience with tiny homes and international investing—that’s such a unique angle.

It has been my experience that mobiles, even double wides, resell for less, and rent for less than modulars. 

.• A common approach: keep CA rentals in your own name with strong insurance, put TX STRs in a TX LLC, and avoid mixing states in one entity.Tax angle:• Whether you hold rentals in an LLC or personally, depreciation, expenses, and Section 179/bonus depreciation still flow through to your return.• The entity affects liability more than taxes—unless you elect S-Corp treatment for active businesses (not usually recommended for rentals).This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

The word investor definitely covers a wide spectrum, and not all approaches are the same.

But for the legion of new and aspiring investors, this is possibly a niche, an angle, they aren't familiar with.

Not sure how widely adopted that practice is and for those that do it, do you ever meet resistance or have transactions to that end up not consummating because of too many hoops for guests to jump through? 

@Bryant Brislin I would even consider doing a mobile/manufactured development if I thought the city would go for it, but being that it's surrounded by established angle family residential, I'm sure there would be a lot of resistance from existing property owners. 

Great question, Kelly, I’ve looked at this angle before.