I've been content to wholesale, stow away cash, and keep a strong credit profile for when things bottom out but a "brain fart" popped in my head.  

@Philip OlivierYour tax profile is a little bit more complicated and such I think you should hire a professional(I am a little biased).Since you make $100,000 from your full-time job - you should be eligible to deduct the losses(if you have them) from your rental property so long as you don't have significant income from other sources including the short term rentals. 

I don't think I'm much of a fan of having a profile visible to the public and my kids splashed all over it.

Get a W2 jobAttend the real estate meetup groups in your marketHouse-hack your first investment propertyGet a profile picture :)

I think you'd find it difficult to get where you want to go with your $85k and I don't think use of those funds for that purpose puts you in a good risk profile with regards to capitalization and exposure, personally.ID of a multi-family that you can rent out...

You can always change your profile settings to only show the first initial of your last name. 

LLL is also great in that they keep your "profile" on record.

I would not even have named the current occupant as styled the suit as: Myself vs Original tenant and all other occupantsA couple of other questions and observations just to help:-I would go to your profile and change it to just your initial so this thread cannot be googled by the occupant-Did you seek a monetary amount or just possession? 

I’m filling my profile for Dunn and Bradstreet and I’m not sure what one to use.

I don't know that I've ever met a 1st gen African LO, but I've met 1st gen LO Russians, Latinas, Brits... and to the extent that African accents are associated with "Nigerian Prince" schemes, note that the overwhelming majority of LOs doing shady things circa 2004-2007 had accents identical to what you would expect my accent to be based on my profile picture, so you certainly shouldn't assume that I'm not shady based on my accent any more than you should assume someone is shady if they have an accent that sounds African.