Half of the homes I look at where someone is upside down are an out-of-state investment gone bad. 

Also half of them don't have the deal under contract or under control.

We always teach Lease Options first because they are the easiest and safest.

does air allow you to set the times, we coordinate ours within a half hour before allowable check in and right exactly at check out.

Accountants are in such demand, that the best are not even accepting clients half the time.The other problem I see often with accountants on here is that they specialize in larger investors, and have really high prices when you as a smaller investor do not need all the bells and whistles.Another thing I see is folks thinking they need to have a tax professional in their state.

My family and I purchased a half acre lot in Northridge, CA. 

.$5500 income Minus $550 (10% for property management that coordinated cleaners, some maintenance, restocking, communicating with guests which I took over eventually because I was much better / more invested in it.)Minus $300 for bills (water elec cable / internet gas)Minus $100-150 for each clean Remember you have a 5 bedroom house and your 15 guests just spilled beer all over the place, dirtied the **** out of the kitchen and all the bathrooms, tracked dirt in the house, and maybe smoked weed inside And you have to strip all the beds and sheets and everything and remake everything / restock everythingThat’s a 3+ hour job for at least 2 cleanersNow you can find cleaners that are cheaper, but will they do a half *** job and hurt your ratings (this is common in volume Airbnb businesses), be able to show up consistently and on off times (Friday at 11 am and then also Sunday at 11 am).

If you only do one, you are cutting your possible leads by half. 

Operate honestly even though it won't always be the easiest choice and that you won't always get that in return and you will have nothing to second guess or regret later. 

They anticipate rate reductions starting as early as the second quarter of this year, bringing the federal funds rate to 4%-4.25% by the end of 2024 and further down to 3.0%-3.5% by the end of 2025.While a decrease of 1.0%-1.25% may not seem significant, it's poised to catalyze a mini-boom in the CRE industry, particularly in the latter half of this year.