To ensure compliance with property management regulations and rental licensing requirements in the state of Washington, it is necessary to research and familiarize oneself with the specific criteria.

[Name Withheld] (2021), unlicensed individual from Sheffield Village, Ohio was assessed a $1,000 fine for marketing a property for sale for others in the Canton, Ohio area and holding oneself out in the business.

It's easy to overextend oneself in this business.

In spite of this rigorous process, you can still end up with bad PMs, have to try others until you get a good one, self-manage or quit the direct investing and invest passively in others deals.  

BoCo is also currently reconsidering the STR rules as well so it might not be wise to dedicate oneself to that strategy until they come out with the new regulations.

The time of chaos and disaster makes an amazing time and resource to re-make oneself.

In 2022, there is enough free content to educate oneself that having a single guru tell you how to be rich doesn't make sense.

It's very difficult to injure oneself with either of these things, and if they do break they can be inexpensively replaced.

I was running some numbers and it seems a 6 bed board and care would not be feasible as a investment, without creating a full time job for oneself. 

Great lessons about not letting oneself be distracted by background noise and keeping one’s eyes on the prize.