Anything where I don't deal with a HOA would add years to my life and take grey from my hair....

I believe that it will be really helpful in affirming much of what you say here and I hope that it is full of plenty of new ideas for you as well.

The building has four LTRs, a hair salon, and the unit I want to use for STR.

You've given me another affirmation in my decision to not use an agent with this last transaction.

Of course then you may have to give an investor hair cut rather than selling each one separately and getting top dollar.But if you're willing to watch your calendars you can sell each one and start a separate exchange with each and combine them into fewer more expensive purchases. 

I am very exciting to have found this website, after spending the past 2 weeks pulling my hairs out trying to figure out the pieces to Real Estate Investing.INTRODUCTIONA little bit about myself, I am totally new to this whole Real Estate investing arena, at best 2 weeks of experience.  

Real estate is just another problem for us to figure out.On the flip side we tend to be more introverted and small-c conservative than sales and marketing types, so we struggle with those parts of the business.I think you also get to a point in engineering where you have to decide whether to stay on a technical path or go over to the pointy-haired dark-side of management.

They went to a coding boot camp and now work in IT, and I searched high and low for some sort of job that wouldn't make me tear my hair out and landed in the finance world.

But we’ve leveled out from last year and both rents and values have plateaued or even dipped a hair.  

I know it sounds like I'm splitting hairs but some banks write HELOCs in their residential department....which won't write Investment Properties.