I'd do exactly this if I were in your shoes.

Hi Nathaniel,I was in the same shoes as you twenty years ago when I graduated from college. 

Put on your selling shoes and educate them on how they can focus on finding deals in today's demanding market instead of chasing tenants or fixing broken pipes. 7.)

If you were in my shoes, what would you do?

I wouldn't recommend my strategy to anyone not in my shoes, that of a handyman landlord building a small, tight portfolio in single-family and small multifamily in a Rust Belt city. 

A Smart TV, gas or charcoal grill, some outdoor entertainment (horse shoes, fire pit, archery or pellet gun range).

I'm sure there's someone out there that's been in my shoes before, so thank you in advance!

Bring in the shoe box full of receipts let your accountant have a ball. 

For those successful STR investors out there, what do/would you have as your CCCs if you were in my shoes?

I had looked into cash-out refi-ing before, but ran into the ~548k maximum loan as a blocker (which in hindsight is puzzling, because it looks like the LA county jumbo loan threshold is ~822k)BONUS: What would you do in my shoes?