Not what we are looking to do and all the MLS listings just don't pan out numbers wise so far.That's awesome that you got some returns on flips and found some buy & holds recently. 

We have located a good parcel of land at a fair price, only issue is it's currently zoned for residential and we are planning to develop a small, 8-unit apartment on it.

You can still find some events on RHAWA website and meetup.com but it's a lot smaller number.As for getting started, remember it's possible to be successful with many different strategies.

My vacation market we are around $800 per night so the clientele is more family oriented and tend to spend most days in national parks or out adventuring.

However, as must as we strive for a hotel like experience we are not a hotel and we make that clear in listing and our welcome letter. 

We do some pretty conservative numbers (probably because we are new) so if the numbers work, we will pursue it.

Even though no prepayment is possible, we are quoting a lot of 1, 2, or 3 year prepayments. 

You probably know this already, but you don't want to put yourself in a situation where you are struggling to keep the lights on in the event that you put all of your equity into this home and can't take any out. 

Well it will need to be life changing events like having kids, new job, divorce, taking care family members etc but the rule of thumb is to live there for at least one year then being able to rent it out and converting it into an investment property.

i provide dishwasher if we are putting a new kitchen. also a garbage disposal.sometimes i provide washers/dryers if i have extra laying around (i always seem to have them).sometimes i have purchased fridges and ovens since it's best to invest in capital expense and get a tenant than to have a house sit empty forever.our lease also states that tenants should purchase the appliance plan, which noone really does purchase.