One or two gurus spend on average of a documented $100,000 a month in employee costs, taxes, office space, marketing and bonuses.

Don't feel pressured to deploy it all in a year, and don't over-deploy into any single offering or sponsor.Maybe while you wait, spend some time getting intimately familiar with how syndication investments work by reading this: www.biggerpockets.com/syndicationbook

They'd be a partner and help provide solutions to operational challenges when scaling, we'd bring tech in like Breezeway for scheduling, give them a company card with spend limits to buy supplies, they even ended up landing a deal with a local laundromat to wash and fold there after-hours to make their lives and ours easier.Truly a win-win. 

If you are spending 325K on buying and 200K on rehab all in you are at 525K, you'd ideally need the ARV into the 600/700K range to give cushion and room since I would assume you would do a refi at the end.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the first-time investor isn't looking to spend $2M and be in the black $1,000/mo or more.Secondly, and most importantly, you can NOT get an STR in Breckenridge (or Keystone, another option in your response).

I know that co-star offers this, but I don't have that budget, I am okay with spending 100-200 a month for software to practice with and learn.

@Gino barbaraaverage household income is $31,000 USD, Unit mix is 8 1 bed/1 bath, 2 2 bed/1 bath, 1 4 bed 1 bath mobile home.

(side note, i am much younger than my profile pic makes me look :) but now its all about speculation, riding the price up and up, when in fact you can manipulate its price if you control enough of it, and nobody knows who controls what.And yes, you can spend it by going through several steps, and I am sure you can find other bitcoin aficionados that will accept it directly.  

What did you spend on rehab?

If you find something, go hard money and then spend the next few months re-leveraging the existing debt.You can have your cake and eat it too, just be patient my friend.