You may also put 5% down on a conventional loan with no self-sufficiency requirement. 

If your tenants have an enjoyable experience with you, as opposed to hating you, you will go far if you are self-managing.

Are you intentionally looking to outsource the management and day to day operations to a management company versus self-managing? 

This email gives people yet another opportunity to self-select out of the application process based on my expectations and criteria before an actual showing in scheduled. 

Also are you self managing it?

Remember, the notion of amassing wealth without investing is a dangerous myth perpetuated by self-proclaimed experts.

But, more importantly for future investing (and sanity) stay away from "guru's" and self proclaimed mentor's who have something to sell you.

There are the self service options as well as drop off and pick up options.

He felt spending more time disputing the rejection was not cost effective and i see his point but suspect airbnb recognizes this and uses it to their advantage.  

Even though ALOT and I mean ALOT of people on bigger pockets or friends and family have told me airnbnb arbitrage wouldn't work out I have been pretty successful even though I was pretty much self learnt without any form of joining a course or anything like that.