Here're some sample questions to test his technical competence, in any order:We're making $200k in salaries between myself and my spouse.

For landlords using DSCR loans, how are you stress-testing rent assumptions and expenses before locking financing?

If you want to send it my way for beta test happy to do that plus share with a few of my developer/builder colleagues across the US.

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If you have a few rentals and your budgets for expenses, vacancy, cap ex are working adding another unit isn't something you need to stress over "testing" because I always view my risk as being my portfolio as a whole not property by property. 

For those using DSCR loans, how are you stress-testing rent assumptions and expenses before locking financing?

For smaller-to-medium size deals, the more savvy buyers will have a conceptual site plan done by an architect/engineer and will have what we call out here a "pre app" meeting with Planning at the city, to see if there are any initial comments and feedback from Planning (or other city departments) if there are any constraints they see from the out-set that could put downward pressure on the ultimate unit count yield. 

Beyond basic numbers, how do you stress-test deals to make sure funding won’t become a problem?

What activities qualify for the material participation tests for making your short term (<7 day on avg stay) active instead of passive income/loss?

Even if a short-term rental qualifies as non-passive under the STR rules, those hours cannot be grouped with or applied toward long-term rental material participation or the 750-hour Real Estate Professional test.