Several years ago I had stacked them up side by side and Beyond out performed Price Labs but quite a lot, more swings and dips during high/low demand periods. 

If your annual pricnipal and interest payments alone are $80,000 and airDNA says you will only gross $50,000 it is so far off that it probably wont work even if you outperform your competitors. 3.

You have more like a 95/5 principle - 5% outperform the other 95% combined.

The WA state Housing Finance Commission might be a great program for you to join.Real estate is the IDEAL investment vehicle, and it outperforms Bitcoin and stocks by many folds.Real Estate is IDEAL because it has:I (Income)D (Depreciation in taxes)E (Equity Growth)A (Appreciation)L (Leverage, you can put less than 5% down)Best of luck and feel free to reach out if you got any questions!

Long term; is to establish a portfolio of units significant enough that out performs our EI and eventually get into commercial REI.

This in some studies has been shown to outperform or at worst break even with buy-and-hold investing and is WAY WAY WAY WAY less involved, gut-wrenchingly exhausting, and fraught with those inevitable bad apple tenants. 

OR dont hv to pay one however you want to look at it.I own 2 WL polices and 1 IUL so I have no dog in that fightWL guarantees are better... much better than IUL'sIUL's in theory should Always outperform a div paying WL policy from an IRR point of view over a 25 yr 30 year 40 year time frame...but who knows??!?!

Up until this past year, CO massively outperformed Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg on that front.You can pick one usually -- cash flow or appreciation. 

the trend of appreciating markets out performing cash flow markets goes back decades, but it does not imply this trend will continue going forward"Does that contradict or match the definition of "speculation"?