I have gleaned these from BP members who have posted their successes.

However in my market if I try to Airbnb the second half of a duplex I'll sink in 2 weeks with terrible reviews saying "there were other people living in this house don't stay here it's not private"  I've only gleaned vacation rental wisdom from clients second hand, so take this with a grain of salt, but what I've heard is that if you emphasize all the bad things right in the listing (next to the good things, of course), then you only get people who do not care about those bad things, and that often solves the problem.

@Daniel Weiss - From what I've gleaned here on BP, the South Side is very diverse.  

I'm sure you can glean a lot of great information about how other people are operating their businesses!

I dabbled with getting into REI about 8 years ago and I learned from that experience that a LOT of what you can learn about REI, you glean from awesome sites like this.

I know well, from running other businesses, that to grow this venture at anything more than a snails pace - or to make the leap to a larger multi-unit residential or commercial building - we will need funds other than our own.I've been lurking on this site for {quite} a little while now, gleaning what information I can.

Since I am relatively new at the process I was able to glean some insight from your article.

I'm open to other areas as well.I'm not looking to take on landlording at the moment, so I plan to hire a property management company to manage day-to-day issues.But basically, I'm brand new to this and am just looking to glean as much information and network as much as possible, so I can make sure I'm making successful, informed decisions.I'm happy to answer any questions or take any advice you folks may have to offer.Thanks very much!

I did glean a partial email list of his other investors but I haven't contacted anyone yet.

The book "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene had a lot of good advice on this subject, but I would love to glean from the BP community too.