It was explained to me that this was to help begin my tax sheltered “nest egg” and that I would be using the cash value as “loans” to myself with returns around 4% a year.

The Data base was basically the I 5 corridor from the California Oregon Border to Just South of Tacoma Washington between the coast range and the Cascade range.. we had about 11k parcels identified and that was our list.. we sent some mailers but it was almost all telephone work.. once we had the data base we used the reverse directory to find the phone numbers now keep in mind this is pre Cell phone..

It's a chicken or the egg thing- no one will book your property as an STR if it isn't furnished, but I don't think you can capitalize those expenses until it's in service. 

waste of time money and brain cells.. move on  its part of the bizz.

PM me for my cell phone # if you do not already have it and we can discuss any other questions/comments/concerns.

Don't take it for granted and don't put all the eggs in the same basket.

Cell and fiber.4.

But we wont sacrifice our retirement years just to have a larger nest Egg for the kids.. :)

Quote from @Andrew Low: Anyone with two brain cells knows that the sales market is hot.

It's like saying Kodak suffered from anything other then fact the reality changed, everyone got cameras in there phones in there pockets, cell phones were an extinction level event for kodak.