The hurdle that we are facing is insurance.

Our cleaning fees for the year were $40k, landscaping $2.5k, handyman $3k... all tasks that can be done by an operator and off set the loss of income from occupying the main house that brought in about $40k for 2024.My wife and I have decided that even though it makes good money, we have been in Texas for a year and we want to do something similar here and we are very much DIY people and don't want a PM company to run it to the ground.

We had ours done on a turnover day so we didn't miss a beat.We have a 6 bedroom cabin in Wears Valley that can sleep up to 23.

(just looking for a ballpark here)- Average number of room turnovers per year - PadSplit says the average tenant stays 9 months- Average cost of each room turnover (room & carpet cleaning, repairs due to wear and tear)- Repairs and maintenance - how much are you typically setting aside for this?

I'm recently married and we are living in my house that I bought using the VA loan.

We are in the early stages of seeing tokenized assets.

Here's how I do my due diligence:1) Portfolio matching: (takes 30 seconds per deal)a) Have an educated opinion on where I think we are in the real estate cycles (financial and physical market cycles)b) Then and only then do I pick the strategies, capital stack, and specialized asset subclasses that make sense for that opinion.

We are ok with making calculated risks with our money, but when you introduce other peoples' money to the equation as a variable it can get sticky.

For the most part we are all about leverage but that is leverage that makes money. 

We have a single family home, a small commercial retail building, and now we are pursuing a 5 unit apartment complex.