This would be the ultimate goal if you are house hacking to lease all the units once you vacate.

Any time you transact with a traditional currency it goes through a very complex series of checks that ultimately are centrally controlled by some government.

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Staging your house well can help you attract more attention from buyers, which ultimately helps it sell faster and maybe for a higher price than an unstaged home (see visual):What Are My Staging Options?

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People seem more angry with Airbnb and VRBO but ultimately, guests still see more value in them than hotels so the question will be if new entrants (or existing platforms like BDC) will continue to invest in the STR space (e.g.

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My ultimate focus is not how can I get you rich quickly but rather, wealthy over time.  

You also seem to have based your view of syndications on a sample size of 2 good outliers and based your disdain for direct ownership on a sample size of 2 bad outliers, and when someone brought that up, you basically said that you don't mind losing money as long as you spent no time losing it.The type of person that can lose 50k and be mad "for two days" and thinks that productivity has been lost if he spends a few little hours looking over a deal that could ultimately make more money than many people make in a year is a person that most cannot relate to.

To decide, consider your ultimate goal, manage more tenants, and analyze potential fourplex properties to compare their returns.