Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Real estate is a team sport and your network is your net worth so the more people you interact with, the more deals and partnerships you can make.

- How do I convince my parent's I'm not gambling my savings?

We have a one year old daughter who keeps us busy and we love playing sports and spending time outdoors with our free time. 

Does anyone have any successful STRs in college football/sports towns?

His scholarship would be gaming related, playing on the e-sports team.

So now when they travel to Paducah KY for their kids traveling sports tournament, they are searching out Airbnb's instead of the Hampton Inn, in a town no one thinks of as an Airbnb hotspot.For work travel I'll stay in a hotel, but for ANY and ALL family travel, there's no way I'm giving up having a separate room for each of my kids.My mountain market revenue is flat-ish to up, but that's because I took over management from a PM and was able to do a much better job, so it's hard to get a pulse on my local market.

This is investing, not gambling.

Holding onto a property merely for tax considerations is a dangerous gamble.

I view this as a gambling puzzle.