If not, no worries—we’re still here and would love to chat.You can schedule a free call to see if what we’re up to is your cup of tea.

If you didn't, seems like a bad / inexperienced accountant to suggest such a thing.In my opinion, its the same as telling someone to go to a trade school and get a new career.A STR can help you lower your taxes but I would only do it if you were planning to purchase a STR.A STR is a business, you are responsible for furnishing the house, responding to guests, providing a great stay and experience, etc

If the inexperienced investor knew how much work, effort, time, analysis, negotiation, organization, capital, and knowledge it takes to successfully find, identify, evaluate, and close on a property that fits the criteria that gurus falsely claim they see 100’s of every day, 99% of them would abandon their real estate dreams” and pursue ostrich farms, mink breeding, or setting up a “down line” to sell condensed cleaning products that their “upline” has an exclusive distributorship on for the southwestern quadrant of Bisbee, Arizona.  

Now to clarify, I know how butthurt inexperienced investors can get when investing in Cleveland and not understanding how things go, so I am not taking their accusations at face value, it's not my fight, but it just goes to further illustrate that you have no regard for the truth when you speak.___ So, James what you have posted is irrelevant, What's conflicting?

Building your core-4 will also be fundamental to investing out-of-state, I'd recommend reading this article by David Greene: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/core-four-real-estate-tea...The Midwest markets present some good opportunities for investors with cheaper price points, lower taxes and a lot of them being landlord-friendly as well.

So, the FB group and the coaches you get are all relatively inexperienced as far as I can tell.

They are hiring inexperienced leasing agents that are asked to do a 80% turnover in a 10 week timeline.  

It was squatting down heavily but they finished it in one long Saturday with a lot of iced tea.

Does providing complementally k-cups/teas, popcorn, spices, toiletry essentials (toothbrushes, floss, bath wash, shampoo, conditioner, soap, paper products, makeup remover, laundry detergent, firewood with firestarters for the fireplace and firepit constitute as substantial services?

Maybe, but It is most likely just a fishing post from an inexperienced investor, to add to their list of deal suppliers.