After a bit more research, I actually think renting a place will get me started faster and earn some experience doing Airbnb with a little less risk involved.Obviously I still need to be concerned about not violating a lease agreement by doing so and I would likely live on the property and lot or all the time.Ownership is still the ultimate goal, but this looks a faster party to self driven income.

I did but will only share with interested parties.

After the meetings the group would sometimes after-party at a bar nearby and I would go to those too.

i invest via 50/50 partnerships. i find/coordinate/manage the deal, and my partner brings the capital to the deal & approves large expenses. on their end, it's just about as hands-off as investing in a syndication, but they get to be one of just two main 50/50 decision-makers. and when there are just two parties involved in a deal like this, vs it being diluted across tons of investors, i find it's also possible for the capital partner to see much higher returns. when it comes to teaming up in real estate i'm much more relationship-based and less transactional. i'd rather do fewer very high-quality, carefully selected deals, each with just one capital partner, so that i can really serve that person's best interests and get us amazing results, vs. doing a bunch of diluted deals. i also feel a lot of syndicators out there are newer to the game, lack experience, haven't used their own money enough, and don't use their investors' dollars with enough caution. it gives the high quality syndicators a bad name.

Although I agree with @Nathan Gesner in part, I think he is off base in categorizing a relationship based approach to landlording as "amateur".

Or I can make it a gravel lot, put up a fence, and call it boat and rv storage.

More so, bills are not necessarily voted by party lines.

Late to the party on this one.

Most cleaners are willing to do this, so you shouldn't have to deal with a 3rd party commercial laundry service. 

And won’t parties involved see red flags waived by all this “out of space” subterfuge?