There’s nothing wrong with playing it safe, starting small, mastering your strategy, and then scaling up—especially when using other people’s money.That said, as others have mentioned, house hacking is a fantastic strategy.

@Yosef Ajami, we use Quickbooks Online for all of our Clients (including syndicators).

I have corporate bookkeeping experience and can see all the money coming in online but there is no one there I can speak with about our account.

I will play devil's advocate and mention what kind of properties you may get creatively.

I wanted a cohesive, fairly upscale look, so bought new from a variety of places including a local furniture store, Amazon, Wayfair, Target online, Home Depot online, Pottery Barn, Article, and others.

Mid term rentals however are another viable strategy for the area should further restrictions come into play.

What are the chances that someone would search this online forum, find this thread, and create an account just to make a positive comment on this thread about this company?

Find ways to consistently and systematically add more people to your database each week - i.e. cold calling, networking, online marketing4.

I could not find any details that confirm that online. 

Then just yesterday, I come across the 1099 / 1099-NEC form requirements online from my own research.