My main concern is that you underestimate how much time/effort this will take.

I say start there, exhaust your local efforts before jumping toward "shiny things" and unknown markets, persons etc.. 

I wasn’t looking to add value or find something off-market because the time and effort just didn’t seem worth it compared to focusing on my career.

I appreciate the effort to clarify and support your clients.

Did you retain an attorney upon discovering the permitting issue in an effort to seek damages?

By BRRRRing, you can achieve your goal of acquiring four houses with minimal effort and financial strain, allowing you to shift from buying to paying them off.

Fake investors, you can sell the dream, the hustle is sold separately  thats why lottery tickets sell so well.. dream with no effort. 

But by building a successful short term rental business on someone else’s property aren’t you giving away the increase in value of the property resulting from your efforts to the property owner?  

Our combined efforts made the property appealing to buyers, leading to a successful sale at $99,000.

Just a few hours of preparation could have saved you many hours of effort, a lot of worry, and thousands in lost income.