Get your nose to the grindstone and start learning what you need to know!!!!

but I Also saved many from getting led around by the nose ring from so called investors who were really just all hat and no cattle.. have to guard against the wanna be investor also.   

The odor would be my bigger concern.My nose is forever scarred from renovating a smokers house with 18 years baked into everything inside the house.

Meaning don’t buy something just because you like it--buy it on favorable numbers.If you are looking for a fixer for instance, it's intelligent to find a fixer where you believe rehabbing will allow you to increase rents, and it's best in an area with increasing employment--as well as many other things.If you want to approach this in a hard nosed manner (not everyone does) it's smart to make all of your buy and sell decisions based on financial measures, such as the income stream, and on the return on investment that the income stream represents--as well as many others.It's also intelligent to calculate:1.Its Projected Cash Flow2.Its Projected Appreciation3.The Loan Pay down benefit you will get from owning it.4.The Tax Shelter you will get from owning it.As well as many other things.

I think I was using that calculator in error assuming that the nosing was part of the run length, but it doesn't appear to be based on the fact that overall run does not change.

I'm wondering if there is anyone on here that deals primarily with short and long term rentals that could potentially lend a mentoring hand to get me off and running in the right direction so I'm not just digging my nose into books and online forever.

Long time no see.

But mostly I smelled money :)I read a book once that said, "There is more honor in a well-tilled field than one soaked in blood" and I still believe it.I've just met too many people why dream about making money in real estate that turn up their noses at manual labor, even skilled labor, and think they're too good for it, JD.

I'm talking head down, nose to the grind stone, geek out sessions where we develop in depth and thorough spreadsheet checklists and systems for each process.

What would normally be a crash is somewhat offset but the abundance of cash in the investor space from a long bull run and the transfer of wealth & equity often happens under our very noses.