It's hard for the residential investors that have (made it) already in their minds to embrace they are beginners again on the next level. 

Im sure there are investors who did I just haven’t met them yet..Don’t be so afraid in making mistakes, embrace your mistakes and learn from them when they happen because they will and learn from other who made mistakes.I already had to get rid of my first Property Manager in my short career and on w a new one now I know exactly what qualities I need from a Pm and if this PM doesn’t work out I’ll look for a 3rd...I suggest going to meet ups and talking w other investors, if my time permits I might be going to my first one next week.It’s ok to feel like you don’t know what you’re at first, with time that feeling will go away.Confidence will come with experience..I still consider myself a newbie w a little bit of experience, my confidence is growing and I’m now considering moving to a new market time will tell.Plan your exit strategy, having a good exit strategy in place helps me pull the triggers on deals..Good luck ...

Now I just embrace it and it’s who I am!

Nobody embraces the grind.

This is still a very residential area too, so they don’t close down in winter because they have industry and jobs outside of tourism.

If they don't, it'll be far better to have a pro-active and uncomfortable convo with Aunt now and be well served in real estate instead of embracing comfort and having harder emotions to deal with down the line.Keep asking questions where others blindly "do" and you'll be unstoppable in all things!

(That's 3-4% with ZERO tourism dollars coming in for a solid 6 weeks along with a 20+% spike in unemployment.) 

The plan is to transition from my current day job to a job as an agent and to be able to work with a team under a broker who embraces investors and investing.Now from what you have wrote it seems like you will be looking for seasoned agents but thought I would introduce myself anyways.

And since there's absolutely no proof anywhere that the hotels do this better than str investors, and the development of tourism and even the City TOT is benefiting from it,  why voting these laws if not under the influence of the lobbies?

Unless I glossed over it - I'm at ch5 now though.Anyway, one of my friends is about to close on a property in Twentynine Palms, which he says is 'exploding' as far as visitors/tourism is concerned.