CA has no financial capacity to fill that void, not a chance.

In addition, suncoast will charge you a 1 month rent just to get the property filled, so you are already starting off massively underwater.

Oh and people would fill out buyer or seller forms, and they would never populate.

And if your investor friend’s private loan helps fill in any gaps, it might be worth considering that short-term pain for long-term stability.What do you think you’d focus on first... paying off that line of credit as fast as possible or jumpstarting the renovation to boost cash flow right away? 

We just purchased a duplex and filled it immediately at max rent in our area.

The house had the utilities turned off for the 6 years, and was filled with the original 1 owner's furniture, clothes, appliances, car and ecn food in the frig (without elctric on for 6 years). 

As someone who previously owned some rental properties and did not want the headaches associated with that, I found a great deal of potential value in having an entire team do all the research / rehab / management that could fill in the blanks for me in terms of real estate investing.

-Up to March 2024 we were operating as an LLC, but we closed it in 2024, so previous years we were not filling SCH E instead we were issuing to ourselves K1s.

Hugely popular area.Our cabin is doing good, hopefully the calendar will fill in more throughout the year.Although lots of people visit the area there is a lot of competition. 

It certainly has a large dependency; you are at the mercy of that one OTA.In addition, unless you are at ideal occupancy, alternate platforms can fill some holes.