I am Legit looking for a short-term rental near the Gulf of Mexico so I can begin to act on the sail around the world in a sailboat dream. 

In your case, that does not apply.With that said, my first response here is more or less indicative on how exiting the rat race is more a pipe dream than anything.

Hey I'm just getting my feet wet with real estate, and I came across Kris Krohn and I would like to know you're thoughts on him to see if he's selling dreams.

While most of the posts here are true, we need to step back and look at it a DIFFERENT way…The people (wanna be investors) we’re talking about are people trying to go for the American Dream of self sufficiency, independence, and financial success.  

If you find your dream property now, keep an eye on the rates and be ready to pounce if they dip.

Go put one together.Without one of those no one can tell you what you should do correctly and in any case you have no basis for valuing one persons advice vs someone else.If you did have an IPS, it would most likely indicate that the recent run up in real estate prices means your RE portion of your investment portfolio is over weighted. 

It was difficult to install and has been problematic as it bends with the weight of our two overweight tenants who like to take showers together.

It was a dream for us to have a property in the Coastal area and now we flipped it.

It was a dream for us to have a property in the Coastal area and now we flipped it.

It was a dream for us to have a property in the Coastal area and now we flipped it.