I am not sure what I would pick as the most important ingredient, rather it is an overall recipe that will get results.

So even if you pick a state with stronger protections like WY or NV, the cause of action arose in the state where the tenant fell, so likely that the court where the accident happened would have jurisdiction.

I am afraid your strategy of using additional insured status to circumvent the lender being notified of the change in title ownership will just give your carrier reason not to pick up coverage in the event a claim arises. 

This to me seems akin to going to a bar to pick up chicks.

I still (strongly) believe that supply will pick up in the spring once STR owners are disappointed with 2021 holiday figures, deteriorating property values on the mountain.

Let him pick the option that works best:1.

We did our first flip in 2018, but we completed several more in 2019, and the pace really picked up.

I would love to hear insights from people who are doing higher marketing volumes and what high level strategies are working (I know you can't reveal all your tricks).The truth of the matter, is that since real estate investing and picking up houses for pennies on the dollar, now requires no money (except to pay the guy selling the program), no experience necessary and is guaranteed to make you rich, with little effort and no risk or problems, with immediate results, that now everybody is doing it.  ;-)

I picked RE because I had a lot of practical knowledge and experience that I thought I could leverage to add value to my purchases.

Buy it as a duplex, keep things legal, and pick one of the two units to rent it out as part of.