Purchase price: $194,000 Cash invested: $20,000 Buy & hold investment to mirror LLC's strategy.

But steady as she goes for the past 30 years, mirroring the S&P and real estate has placed me in a great position financially for when I retire in 4 months at 50.Specifically hindsight is 20/20. 

Maybe these crowdfunding sites are coming at it from the wrong direction, making them mirror other business equity fundraising scenarios and not meeting the needs of the real estate investor community.

We also respond immediately to all messages.When we started, we looked at other superhost's listings and basically tried to mirror what they were doing to be successful. 

The stuff you can get at a Goodwill type store are silverware, plates, small appliances, some art, mirrors, all that kinda stuff...

We painted the whole house ourselves (talk about sweat equity), had a 320 foot privacy fence built in the backyard, updated both bathrooms, and swapped out mirrors, lights, and other fixtures to modernize it.

I actually am a huge advocate of for paying for education and for things that add value to you and your business (hence why I recently started paying for the biggerpockets pro membership, for example).With that being said, there are a lot of gurus out there who give gurus/mentors a bad name because they sell a dream which ends up really being a bunch of expensive smoke and mirrors and up-sells (and not a ton of real value).Start by spending a bunch of time here on the forums, listening to the podcasts, and watching YouTube videos.

Since I assume their door is a mirror up and down and inside to outside. 

Class B - No carpet, luxury vinyl plank, stainless appliances, paint agreeable gray w/ white ceilings, if current countertops are in bad shape, I replace with quartz, if cabinets are rough, I paint white, if bathroom mirrors have no frame, I miter cut door trim and attached with calk, ceiling fans in all BRs, W/D hookups, add deck if possible & cost effective, if flower beds around house, cover with pine needles, last contractor in is professional cleaner. 

Take a lesson from @Chris Mason who popped in to say that his understanding of the problems that women have mirror exactly what we say, not come in and tell us that we're wrong and that we don't experience the things we say we experience.