But he learned a lot and he can ring the cash register.  

Personally If you like your current residence and hope to stay there long term I would forgo major improvements on my primary and use all investment savings to make you more money and cash flow. 

First time investor, looking for cash flow.2.

I think there's a path to refinance that would flip me into positive cash flow, but I'm coming up short on ideas. 

I was able to rent the property by room and it cash flows about $200/month so far.

I'm also seeing lots of homes for sale that were used as Airbnbs, so I'm wondering if that along with these numbers may indicate it's an overly saturated market, and if these are signs that maybe I should keep searching for a stronger market, or just a property that cash flows given the average annual revenue?

Purchase price: $500,000 Cash invested: $100,000 AirBNB in West Sacramento

I'm doing this exact thing right now- I've been pleasantly surprised by how many people in my network have resources, cash and interest in something like this. 

I would like for the properties to cash flow but have no intentions of living off of the cash flow.

I was looking to put 80k cash into then refi afterwards and possibly getting 130k. 130k on mortgage would be close to $800 only leaving $200 in cash flow each month.