@Christian Pichardo not a fan of Tom Cruz as he exaggerates everyting about his success to sucker people in:(Let's address several issues:1) Buying on recommendation of "Guru": what guarantees did they give you about performance?

I activate them with my email, but tenants have to use their own subscription to the premium streaming services. 

I think more and more people have become "users" and take a mile after they've given an inch.

. - some strategies I've seen California investors use to lessen negative cash flow: house hacking, mid-term rentals (people temporarily displaced from home renovation or insurance reasons like fire), rent by the room, Short Term Rentals. - The ultimate house hack, live in the small ADU unit and rent out the two levels of the main house on AirBnb in San Francisco (I would have thought STRs are oversaturated in S.F. but it worked for them and they stay fully booked).

Yes typically you'll file the wholesale activity on a schedule C unless it was done in an entity (S Corp, Partnership, C Corp) but I see above you don't have these.

He asked a few people to send him money in Bitcoin.

If people took the five minutes to complete it they would not need to be asking and searching the internet for their answers. 

I'm going to try to post snippets of things I've learned this past year as a way of paying it forward and gratitude for all I've learned and keep learning via this community. Today's lesson: why I won't use VRBO Pre-A...

Would need more details on the deal, but this is something people could help out on.

One of which is to get a better sense of where other people are investing in and why.