He is more than 3X my price per night, is by fat the most expensive STR in town and has 3X the bookings of any of us. 

Hell, since you know you're refinancing anyways in this scenario, you may even want to ask your local FNMA direct no overlays lender how fat of a lender credit you'd get for a ridiculously high 5% interest rate.

In both instances, the repair person came out just 1 time (2 for the water heater), fixed the problem and my stress level was a big fat zero....just the way I like it.  

Fat chance!

To think my decision to finally make the leap into multifamily came from running across a newspaper story about how Fat Property bought the building my friend lives in.I'm still at the START of my journey but if anyone has any questions I'd love to help and return the favor I was given 

They have great KPI and tracking capabilities that really allow you to be effective with your marketing spend and trim the fat as you go. 

One more joke on this thread:A wife is naked in front of the mirror and says to her husband, "honey I feel fat and ugly, give me a compliment..."

So your a slumlord to their standards that they know nothing about.Eventually, you will be fat, bald (joking on both) and retired rich slumlord vacationing where you won't hear them....... but laughing as you send pics to their work email !

When looking at that pile of retirement savings that is for many people their single largest chuck of investment capital - comparing investing that in real estate to leaving it in stocks is a very powerful and positive paradigm shift indeed.And yes, you will pay taxes on an IRA when you take distribution, but if you have been able to grow your IRA to a really big fat pile of money thanks to the deferral of taxes and good investing strategy, then paying some taxes at the endgame is OK.

There is a saying and I like it a lot – “pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered”.