Check out Brandon's recommended books here https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Best-Real-Estate-Books-Ever.pdf

I would take a close look at the figures and make sure they include all the expenses, MC cut, taxes etc.I am a little skeptical (but that is just me) as over the years I have met so few owners who make any profit on rentals on their home in Kissimmee.Although older WP has always been a popular resort, close to Disney so you probably won't go too far wrong in my opinion.

http://www.laane.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Ai...Don't buy Los Angeles multi-family dwelling with the plan of doing AirBnB...Los Angeles is likely going to limit AirBnB to primary residence. 

Great resourcehttps://uli.org/wp-content/uploads/ULI-Documents/E...

I've found this study fairly helpful in determining friendly cities for STR regulations: http://www.rstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/...

If you want good discounts at Lowe's and Home Depot, get on ebay and buy a 10% off coupon for Lowes or a 15% off for Home Depot. 

Have you never received a "Thank you for being our valued customer" gift/coupon from a store/creditor/etc?

Strongly suggest you look at security plug ins first.Some that I just learned about this week while at RETSO, the real estate technology conference in Atlanta that I will be investigating:WP TouchZemantainbound writerdashterCustom post type UIAlso very important that BEFORE you install plug in that you check how many times it has been downloaded, does it work with your version of WP, how is it rated, how recently was it updated.

Check out the article and all their internal stats showing the bias:I wonder if the other major publications will have the nerve to admit the same.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110702895.html

At most, I'll either have 2 guys working independently from each other or 2 pairs of guys where one of the guys is a helper and not making as much.Many items at Lowes and Home Depot also have a lot of overhead that can be avoided in many instances if you are a savvy shopper and use coupons which can be purchased online (10% up to $5000 or $10 off $50 from mycheapcoupons, also raise.com for another 7-10% off) or shop elsewhere (Harbor Freight for tools).