No need to spend the money yet! 

I’d recommend spending 20-30 minutes researching local competitors to get a sense of what their cleaning fees look like.

I'm currently spending time learning as much as I can from various resources including books here on BP, accumulating capital and structuring my strategy. 

Also, make sure you spend the time building a solid team (agent, lender, property manager) and run the numbers through your team multiple times.

That said, there would be arguably no business purpose to bringing your family along with you, so even if you are spending the entire time searching for real estate.

Outside of real estate, I enjoy spending time with my wife and kids, as well as playing golf, collecting comics and sports cards, and binging the next show on Netflix.I am very excited to meet people with common interests, network, learn, and help where I can.

Basically, if you run it hands-on and spend significant time doing it - probably there is material participation and self-employment tax.As you can see, a generic yes/no answer is impossible for your question.

I recommend spending a little extra money and pay to have trade specific people inspect the property too, not just an inspector.

In the beginning you will spend more time learning how it works, but at the end if you are accumulating rentals, I wouldnt expect to spend more than 5 hrs a month.

I spend every summer in either New York or San Diego, and almost exclusively rent a property for 60-90 days through one of these two platforms.