This will provide shortcuts based on your experience and while everyone else is still writing furiously, you are the person that gets up first and hands in your paper while everyone else is wondering how you did that so fast.Then you need to set your buying parameters and stick to them.

Why not just just find a shortcut between the beginning and end?  

A course is just a shortcut if you don’t want to spend the time digging up the information.

., what metrics are others using besides original cap rates and return expectations to shortcut to a performance point over many years, when all the other metrics are floating around.

Do not take anything for taking shortcuts in real estate investing.  

Just a higher return on paper does not mean that is a better investment.There is no shortcut or easy way out in REI.

There is no shortcut to success.

. - At any rate - please don't try and shortcut the insurance portion.

Ask yourself if it is not just lazyness or a shortcut you are after, BECAUSE know this.Most people fail doing REI.

I don’t necessarily think STRs are a shortcut, despite being a fan of them.We bought in late 2022 (we weren’t naive to the market dynamics/timing, we simply finally had the down payment at that time and it serves as our vacation home as well).We put 10% down and probably cash flow $500/mo, but hard to fully say as we are just now entering busy season.