I actually found out today that the founder of the company Zack had no intentions on funding my deal from about three weeks ago and was stringing my loan along until today.

. - When you go to qualify for your next proeprty, your lender can actually add losses from line 18 back into your income... allowing you to qualify for the next property.

Do we focus on flipping, (currently we have actually been trying to do this, but we physically can't find enough contractors in our smaller market <100K population to do that much work).

I would pull from it to refund a 401K in an emergency or if something catastrophic happened in the business but I have this there as more of a lifeline then funds to actually use. 

Recommend that you speak to someone that actually does STR or is a professional. 

I was actually a little low, I pay $154 per month ($1848 annual) for my two QBO plus accounts.

There are plenty of markets across the country that still have a lot of value in the actual real estate investment.

I haven't seen any info on people earning any money on the actual affiliate/commission side of Minoan.

Actually, it is possible do structure a 1031 Exchange on the sale of one or more relinquished properties and then using the proceeds through the 1031 Exchange to construct improvements on real property you already own.

And oh I have heard that about the majority of people not actually practicing.