Lots of areas that pencil very well on paper but the quality of renter you will get is going to eat into any profit you may think you are getting.

So after long term cap gains tax eats about $20k.

There are opportunities out there but some strategies are risky. 1 - Airbnb (STR) comes to mind - very competitive, very saturated and becoming highly regulated.2 - Most STRs are transitioning to MTR so that market will be saturated soon if it isn't already.3 - Insurance crisis in florida is getting bad so those costs will eat up cashflow and short term appreciation.

We eat the first one, thy get a picture of all the glory the plumber pulled out and the second time they get billed.

All that being said I don't know about if a salt hot tub is better per se, I know it's better for your skin and I'd say perhaps if you're in a very health conscious area like Joshua Tree, some folks might be attracted to the idea of a salt water hot tub.

(Have your Cake and eat it too!)

Condo's usually have high HOA dues which will eat into your cash flow.

I want to try and offset as much cost as possible without compromising quality so I’m looking for a GC mentor who could help me eat, breathe, sleep and wake GC lol.

But from a moral & ethical perspective, you may want to decide at some point to just eat it and accept write it off as cost of doing business.

I feel terrible walking away...but i was under incredible stress (not sleeping and eating like crap) trying to figure it out and make the quotes work by paring back finishes.