At this stage in my life, these equity plays are more impactful than holding onto a property for a couple hundred dollars of monthly cash flow.What’s your take?

- Go look carefully at the numbers and you'll see this.If you could acquire more rentals and they threw off $500 profit each/monthly, how many would you need to make a living?

So this is creating more competition and more agreesive rent rates and/or concessions like 1 month free to get those vacancies filled.

PMs are busy - if you email a PM and say "Hey PM, I'm looking at 123 Main St. and I think it will rent for $1500 a month, does that sounds right?"

This is defined as 30 days or more, and you will easily find nurses, professors, students, and more than need a 1-3 month airbnb.Speaking of, you could rent the whole space mid-term - and I suggest through airbnb or VRBO but you don't have to use those.

my property appreciation varies from a low of $2700/month to over $10k/month.   

I’ve recently talked to a property manager and a realtor for my San Diego property and found that going with a manager would put me in the hole 1k a month MINIMUM.

Hi, any fix and flippers in here picking up at least 1 project a month?

If it does go to probate, hopefully your brothers and you can amicably go the informal route vs formal (I've worked with families in both when buying properties out of probate and informal is FAR easier).Since there's no debt on the house, maybe you could sell with financing or maybe you could even buy out your brothers with financing -- that way you maintain ownership and just pay them a monthly amount.

- FYI: it's only illegal to try to rent it out, the property owner can usually legally live in a nonconforming basement unit.If you do all this you may still negatively cashflow each month, so make sure your income can cover and/or your cash reserves.If you do this successfully, you will learn more in 1-2 years than you would reading here on BP for 5+ years:)Good luck:)