The owner of that ice cream store probaly won't be in business very long.Taking advice from any forum should be done with great caution, with an understanding of who has a vested interest in promoting strawberry ice cream.

It's rather time consuming and takes me away from other things I need to do.Not sure if I'm allowed to post the website url, it might be considered promotion, though I have no financial interest in the business.

Whether or not you can cash flow depends upon how good a negotiator and how good a promoter you are.Things to consider:In Hawaii, real estate is expensive, utilities are expensive, HOA and condo fees are really expensive, maintenance is expensive, and insurance is expensive.Hawaii charges a very high tax on vacation rentals.The locations where you can legally rent out a building as a vacation rental are very limited and the state is cracking down on the people who rent out their place short term in an area what is not zoned for it.

I'm going to make huge donations from my wealth begat from liberal market mismanagement to promote true conservatism.

Giving this country an alternative to bailouts - which imho don't work because it doesn't promote spending.

PS.... my forum sites are not related and I will not promote them here.

Side note: I'm very suspicious of all the promotion Memphis gets on the Real Estate Guys podcast.

Commitment to a radically smaller government - I believe our "government programs" are a sham to promote individual dependence on a "system".

If you see alot of vacancy signs and the yellow banners that say "first month free", or even bigger promotions, this will tell you what you need to know.

I was at a trade show as a vendor when a local investor that knew of me walked up promoting a contract he recently received on a light industrial complex.