@Katie Miller, I purely entertain referrals from other people who have had great experiences with niche CPAs. 

My view it’s that it’s always better building a brand rather then focussing purely on the aggregators (whether Airbnb or otherwise) but it would depend on your objectives as an investor/operator of your own spaces. 

Once you have grown to the point where you are beyond house hacking and are purchasing for pure investment, not a place to live, then you can really start using the LLC or other strategies.   

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

It's not quite the same, but it's actually better because we don't waste time drinking beers and shooting the breeze about football or cars.

Stop with the guru sites, the videos, all that nonsense is pure crap designed to drive the lazy into highly risky investments or investment schemes that will surely see you make a little or lose a lot. 

If what you're doing is so wonderfully pure and I'm just too stupid to understand your mastery of the industry why do you have to constantly lie, mischaracterize and misrepresent to raise money?

This run though focusing on zero debt instead of drinking the refi to you die cool aid I believed prior to 08 .. we can now sleep well at night compared to those days.

Or am I just slapping you with pure facts, common sense, and logic?

It's really hard to replace that active income with passive income without a huge pile starting out.From a pure ROI perspective, the highest returning strategies right now are flipping and lending.