Makes no sense....When I was a GC, of course I got huge discounts, plus gifts and game tickets, etc...but we spent sometimes hundreds of thousands of $$ per year at these suppliers.

If you are starting out, Clever Summit has very affordable tickets and will help start networking with others.

I purchased the flight school course from “The Land Geek”.

As others said real estate or any other shiny thing will not be your ticket out.

Don't worry, flights would essentially be free (I have tons of points and credit card churn), and I’d have a free place to stay when I am working in California.

Quality and a flight to primo will remain the common theme in the solvent participants. 

I have had more destruction and stress with tenants who have never even had a speeding ticket then I did with these two tenants who most people wouldn’t even consider them to be their tenants.Moral is, you can do all the background checks, credit checks, look at pay stubs and accounts till you think you found the golden tenant from heaven.

It's the same as an airplane ticket or phone bill.

Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth by Avery Carl is your ticket to success. 

Your goals need to align with whoever your potential investors are.I would schedule a call with a securities attorney, such as @Kim Lisa Taylor to walk through your structure, returns, and business plan, especially if this is your first syndication.There will be demand for your type of deal, especially investors who want a flight to quality in this part of the market cycleGino