Terms Starting with S
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STR Market Analysis
STR Market Analysis is a market analysis concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of str airbnb investing deals.
STR Permit
An STR permit is the official license or registration required by a city or county to legally operate a short-term-rental—often including application fees, inspections, and occupancy-tax collection obligations.
STR Regulation
STR regulation is the set of local, state, and sometimes HOA rules that govern whether and how you can operate a short-term-rental—including permits, zoning, occupancy limits, and taxes.
STR Tax Deductions
STR tax deductions are the allowable tax write-offs for short-term-rental operations—including operating-expenses, depreciation, and sometimes cost-segregation and bonus-depreciation for qualifying improvements.
STR-to-LTR Conversion
STR-to-LTR Conversion is a investment strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of str airbnb investing deals.
Scale Through Refinance
Scale through refinance is the practice of using cash-out refinance proceeds to fund new acquisitions—growing your portfolio by recycling equity from existing properties.
Scenario Planning
Scenario planning is the process of modeling multiple distinct outcomes for a deal—such as base case, upside, and downside—to understand the range of possible results and inform the investment decision.
School Ratings
School ratings are measures of school quality — test scores, graduation rates, college readiness — that families and investors use to gauge neighborhood demand and property value potential.
Scope Creep
The gradual expansion of a renovation project beyond its original plan, adding unbudgeted work that increases costs, extends timelines, and erodes investment returns.
Scope of Work
Scope of work (SOW) is a detailed list of every repair, improvement, and task to be performed on a property during a renovation, used to bid contractors and control costs.
Seasonality
Seasonality is the predictable pattern of short-term-rental demand and rates that varies by time of year—peak-season (high demand, high ADR) vs off-season (lower demand, lower rates).
Second Home
A second home is a property you own for personal use—vacation, weekend getaway, or future retirement—that you don't rent out full-time, as opposed to investment property or vacation rental held for income.
Second Mortgage
Second Mortgage is a real estate lending concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of financing deals.
Secondary Market
A secondary market is a mid-size metropolitan area—typically 1–5 million people—with fewer institutional buyers, higher cap-rate than primary-market metros, and often strong market-fundamentals.
Section 199A
Section 199A is the tax code provision that allows owners of pass-through entities (LLCs, S-corps, partnerships) to deduct up to 20% of their qualified business income (QBI), reducing the effective tax rate on rental and other business income.
Section 8
Section 8 is the federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program that subsidizes rent for low-income tenants—the tenant pays roughly 30% of their income toward rent, and the government pays the rest directly to the landlord, up to the local Fair Market Rent.
Security Deposit
A security deposit is money held by the landlord at lease signing to cover damage, unpaid rent, or other lease violations when the tenant moves out.
Self Check-In
Self check-in is a short-term-rental arrangement where guests access the property on their own using a smart-lock code or lockbox key—no in-person host handoff required.
Self-Management
Self-management is when you run your rental properties yourself—tenant screening, maintenance, rent collection, inspections—instead of hiring a property manager.
Seller Concessions
Seller concessions are credits or contributions the seller agrees to pay on the buyer's behalf—usually toward closing costs—applied at settlement.
Seller Financing
Seller financing is a loan provided by the property seller to the buyer, bypassing traditional lenders—the buyer pays the seller directly over time instead of a bank.
Seller Market Strategy
Seller Market Strategy is a investment strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of real estate investing deals.
Senior Housing
Senior Housing is a property classification concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of portfolio scaling 1031 exchanges deals.
Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis is a deal-analysis technique that tests how returns change when key assumptions shift—vacancy, operating-expenses, rent, interest rate. It reveals breakpoints and risk.