Your muscles will be sore every day, you will see people doing much better than you, and you will constantly fail.

If you fail to follow the rules, you may open your personal assets to a lawsuit.

If you fail to follow the rules, you may open your personal assets to a lawsuit.

If everyone else's STR team around you does win and your team of STRs still fail to perform then the issue could be the manager/coach (you).

There are lenders that will finance newbies, even at 100% of the purchase & rehab, but if the numbers do not make sense, the chances of that deal getting to the table are thin (especially if the lender wants to help borrowers succeed, not help them fail).The lender's underwriter looks at every deal, but especially the lesser experienced operator's deal to determine what is exposed vs what is the return.

For example:  Reviews are weighted the most by the algorithm. 

I am probably similar to you where I never want to retire but want to have the comfort to know if I fail pursuing a dream that it doesn't harm my children.

Since IB has gotten so many positive remarks here, I may reconsider it, since it is weighted very high by the algorithm. 

Your classic newbie move is to focus on one deal for three months and then when it fails, the pipeline is a clean as a newly dug PVC sewer line.

The question is—do you have enough weight in your money-raising capacity so the Sponsor would agree to provide you with all that?