Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”The woman turns from her book and replies to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”

After all this, if you find you want to dig deeper and get more involved, then you might want to strike out and start buying and managing properties on your own.Investing in other people's deals can provide you with an education with a relatively low level of risk and without a lot of distraction from your real job that would come from those 2:00 am clogged toilet calls.All the best,Jonathan

It would be cool to get active STR hosts together though but that’s not what his PR event strikes me as, at quick glance. 

If this is the first hiccup, be reasonable and realistic that you might strike out on another 2-3 PM's before you find another great firm. 

Obviously you know of the problem, so that is strike 2.

I would try to strike a deal with either a hotel or Short term or mid term rental host and just see how low you can get those expenses.

Such terms can be written into a seller financed note, it's like a right of first refusal at a strike price or other better than another offer. 

Repaint it a striking, tasteful color, or sand it down and stain it.

Ha you know, this one strikes me.

But in a town that does $2 billion in real estate per year it strikes me as odd that the 100+ users would not be able to refer a single person to offset some of the $40k it will cost to fully pay for the truck.We will see.....