Income from leveraged real estate or active business income.

This will set up your buy and hold business long term. 

They take good care of the properties, but there's not enough attention given to pricing strategy and they spend money like nobody's business (not a problem when they were spending their own money on the master lease model, but a BIG problem when they were suddenly spending OUR money as the PM).

Make it part of your business model and focus on scaling vs managing.

Thats how it makes sense from a business perspective.

Just know that it is a "no days off" kind of business and very mechanical.I would suggest documenting your process via video so that eventually you can bring people on to replace the different hats you will be wearing.Keep in mind of these 5 components of any wholesale business.lead generation, deal sourcing, underwriting, marketing, transaction coordination.

Our goal is to have a short term rental business and build it over the next several years.

How is your RE business?

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I am learning a lot about the business that, had I not gone through this process, I wouldn’t have learned nearly as much.