I still (strongly) believe that supply will pick up in the spring once STR owners are disappointed with 2021 holiday figures, deteriorating property values on the mountain.

Let him pick the option that works best:1.

We did our first flip in 2018, but we completed several more in 2019, and the pace really picked up.

I would love to hear insights from people who are doing higher marketing volumes and what high level strategies are working (I know you can't reveal all your tricks).The truth of the matter, is that since real estate investing and picking up houses for pennies on the dollar, now requires no money (except to pay the guy selling the program), no experience necessary and is guaranteed to make you rich, with little effort and no risk or problems, with immediate results, that now everybody is doing it.  ;-)

I picked RE because I had a lot of practical knowledge and experience that I thought I could leverage to add value to my purchases.

Buy it as a duplex, keep things legal, and pick one of the two units to rent it out as part of.

Then as you pick up momentum you can look into bringing on a third party to help grow. 

If you are doing it alone, why not pick up a phone and call them and be like "hey" the lease notes rent is due the first, I know there is a grace period on this but I would appreciate it if you could make the payments on the first?

Depending on the amount of furniture you're trying to offload a consignment shop may be more hassle than it's worth.

My first station was in Kings Bay Georgia, where I picked up the book Rich Dad, poor Dad, which kick started my real estate career.