Stay disciplined, focus on cash flow, and you could achieve financial freedom in 5-7 years.Good luck!

Stay tuned! 

Surprisingly, he said he would fix it for free for us.

i tell them all the time to find a good W2 job you like and you plan on staying with a long time. 

Yep I know it- I've had multiple tax clients over the years face a mean surprise with that. 

Expenses went down and ratings / reviews went up.I did the switch after staying in an Airbnb that provided both flowers and local bakery goodies.

we are setting up two OZ funds and would love to talk about what you've found. one is for land development and is more active the other is passive real estate ownership of extended stay. all are ground up. 

Check out Furnished Finder, Airbnb and VRBO (30+ day stays) to get a good idea of what else is out there in the area of El Paso you are looking in.

Unless you monitor regulations full-time, staying compliant is nearly impossible—and a single mistake can cost more than years of property management fees.Properties don't pay rent—tenants do.

It's a competitive market and most of the people that get in trouble here are ones that buy blindly without actually figuring out the numbers, etc.You'd be surprised the number of times I get asked after month one if their electric bill of $xxx or whatever is normal, and the thought running through my head is "how did you not  check things like that before you committed half a million dollars to something?"