Create a portfolio of income producing properties and you can use that income to pay for your primary home.

Valid point about the out of state rhetoric and showing my portfolio of flips in CA seems like the right way to go. 

I did look up syndications but, I want to get experience in owning, rehabing and scaling a long term rental portfolio where I keep n hold the investment on my name long term.

It won't be long you can look back and see a nice portfolio.  

I own a portfolio of 35 units worth just under $4 million and I find that the analysis, projections and valuation tools DealCheck provides are sufficient for me to make investment decisions. 

However the owner comes from corporate world and they started out doing deep dives into markets and moving Hedgefund type portfolios between large investors.. they then decided to offer there service to smaller turnkey type and one offs..

Once again, that is the myth that started from Wall street trying to sell their portfolio.

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

I would guess that you have little or no experience running any kind of STR, and now want to get that experience on the back of someone else's investment, with little or no personal skin in the game, and that's not a good way to build an investment portfolio.

I have a few MTR's in my personal portfolio.