I'm not demeaning your position, I'm merely seeking an avenue in creating a fixed cost scenario while also having total control on how my tenants are handled. 

@Yocheved Beer Lender's customarily will not provide credit for imputed equity for merely purchasing a property well.

For illustration purposes, the majority of investors who post on BP will move the property that pencils as a true BRRRR to the front of the line over the better situated asset with better fundamentals merely because they receive 100% of their invested capital back as opposed to 90% (again numbers are merely to illustrate a point).

Building upon this success, a mere seven months later, I acquired a single-family property which I currently lease as a short-term rental.

To me RE is a hands on business where stock investing is just that investing in someone else's businesses.

., business and personal accounts with sufficient reserves to cover checks returned insufficient.When a contractor or service person I have paid needs the money immediately, and I’ve given them a check instead of ACHing or Zelle the money to them, they go to my bank (B of A) and merely exchange the check for cash.  

Well the $4,300 came from a different insurance company where I’d be a new policy holder.

I get the feeling that a lot of folks are advocating being over leveraged and taking on an ungodly level of debt in order to chase what amounts to a mere $100-200 a month in cash flow for each rental property in their portfolio.

We are merely facilitators to the tax return; it is the client's tax return.

At that point I knew the universe was telling me, RE is my calling.