The great thing about living in a high cost of living area is that your salary / wages are hopefully also very high.If you are a new college grad, I would focus the next 1-3 years on increasing your salary as much as possible(gain new skills, new certifications, change employers, etc).Once you make more money, you can easily get in a position to buy a property on a more frequent basis.Best of luck!

Sub2 needs to be viewed like Hard Money.

Forget the course and put that money on a quality vacation short-term rental.  

If you paid 563k and did not make money yes thats a problem.

You've only owned it six months, so you probably haven't dealt with vacancies, maintenance, or capex, but you should be setting money aside for those things.Your partnership agreement (if you have one) should address exit options.

I like to make money on real estate not just buy it to say I own it.

As others suggested you could also lend this money out for 10-12% and make your money that way and not put yourself on risk on the asset.

but it's not a mailbox money / cash flow situation.

If you want to make money you hustle and hustle and hustle. 

You’re paying big money to target people who explicitly want to hold on to their homes, all in the hope of convincing them to sell.