I don't know how to run a skip trace and don't know the proper software that people use and in Florida, some people do not take kindly to knocking on doors :)Thank you!

I met the neighbors by door knocking and introducing myself when I was in town.

With that being said, I dont think it hurts to knock out some leasing for fast cash but let it steer you away from your long-term goals and staying on the path will get you there the fastest.Good luck!!

Most people learn through the school of hard knocks and many never venture into truly digging in to pick the investment product that has the greatest chance of yielding the largest nest of eggs.

We make sure the airbnb guest codes don't go live until our exact check-in time each day unless the guests specifically request an early check-in - this makes sure our guests don't try to get in early before the apartment is ready.My only knock on the locks is that their wifi range isn't super robust, especially if the wifi signal has to travel vertically between floors to get from the router to the lock. 

If you use a HELOC, I would think about a BRRRR-ish strategy (No perfect BRRRR exists right now unless you go full off-market door knocking/postcard campaign/etc) to where you can refinance and get some of that money back, so you don't have $25k chunks of money at a 9-10% interest rate floating out there indefinitely.

But since this will continue to happen - time bombs knocking out cashflow for 2+ years at a time, I’m questioning whether my portfolio is cashflow positive at all at this point.

If my cleaners arrive before the guests leave, they have instructions to knock on the door and get the guests moving along.

Meanwhile your peers who own $100K houses in Detroit (no knock on Detroit, just used for illustration purposes) feel the need to create a convoluted web of entities and ignore most of what I shared.

They signed and knock on wood still going well with the same tenant, 7 years later.