You're off to a bad start if you must create a poor perception of other options to make your concept look good.  

I have been able to do work arounds for about everything but it sure would help if Buildium would just be a little more flexible and let you created journal entries to different properties much like checking writing allows you to do.

Currently you don’t have a distinct color palette or concept.

Hi Julia,Do you think the concepts from the BiggerPockets book The Book on Rental Property Investing: How to Create Wealth With Intelligent Buy and Hold Real Estate Investing is outdated? 

You can surely buy cheaper properties and obtain the same debt pay-down, but now you've got 5x the head-ache, so right asset class is more about efficiency when it comes to debt pay-down.Tax shielding is similar concept in that more expensive properties directionally give you more building basis to depreciate, which means less net income to tax.

More about the concept of STR tax savings is here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1122635-the-s...As to one CPA saying that your losses would still be passive, we cannot comment.

This ensures you have a proof of concept to show the commercial appraiser.  

cant pull those off with smoke and mirrors :)   and of course my bank that has loaned me about 60 million to build all this thinks I have morals and character as its the cornerstone concept when lending this kind of money on spec builds.. you dont have it you dont get the money.

This means you may need to put more down on one home so it pays for itself.Here's Coach Carson explaining the simple concept in under 20 minutes.

@Kash Tacke I'm a big fan of ADU's in general especially here in the mid west, yes you could potentially be on the front of the wave, but housing density is the solution to the affordability issue, anytime you are investing with affordability in mind is a great strategy to me, and sound like there are some incentives or at least supporting winds form the local city, that in itself seems like it would be worth at least approaching an architect or contractor to bid up some plans or concepts to take tot he city.