You should never take a dollar from an investor unless you are 100% confident in your numbers and your ability to execute.

This showed me their confidence in their abilities and really respect them for putting their own capital to see it through.  

To pick just one of those items and call it "investing" is not understanding the element of time/energy coefficient.

Only in the one off chance that we have another meltdown situation again, and they shut off the ability to draw on the HELOC's like they did in 2008. that way you are not stuck with no cash.

I have been to many islands in the Carribean and Bahamas and there are many fantastic island to include Anguilla, the Abacos as St KittsThe bonus to St Kitts is qualified ownership can also come with the ability to obtain a 2nd Passport.Saying that, I am not a big fan of owning outside the US as the ability of a foreign government to turn on non-citizens will always be there

We had a tenant one day come to our door, presented us with a bill for changing all the outlets to 3 prongs.

They are basically telling you to trust them with no ability for you to verify.

We are thinking that a Hipcamp would do very well because there aren't any good ones locally and we've already had success with short term rentals.The land is $125,000 and we don't have the financial ability to purchase it or do a down payment right now.

If your buying a building that’s $500k, you need to be getting at least $5k a month if not more or it’s not worth looking at in my opinion unless there is some other revenue source (ability to add bedrooms or units, air bnb) or you can increase rents substantially.

It really just limits your exit options and decreases your ability to leverage.