Finance was a combination of a few different vehicles and ultimately ended with a HELOC which was then used to fund multiple other projects over the years.

Combining these two minimizes the impact of financing on your Net revenue. 

Hi BiggerPockets community,We are a married couple based in the California Bay Area, both working as software engineers with a combined income of close to a Million USD.

There was a glut in wineries not long back when The Australian dollar was high and people who once couldn't get enough of Australian wine suddenly turned back to relatively cheaper and more fancy sounding French and Italian plonk, combined with the change in regulation in the Chinese wine market that killed it as a business drink.

You can combine a bunch full-time of investors together and would be hard-pressed to have a repeat of your story with a car crash.

Their customer support is terrible and some of their software, but they have about 8x the site traffic in general than Airbnb and VRBO combined, surprisingly.  

And maybe it's not all or nothing for a given method, sometimes a combination of various financing tools is what wins.

Combining these strategies often gives investors the best balance of cost, simplicity, and security.

Things like your vacations, entertainment, toys, food, clothes, housekeeping, pets, guns etc.

I'm guessing/hoping it's a combination of my screening, having a nicer than average unit and being responsive and respectful With the tenants.