If you are "buying" a hotel-affiliated rental, the hotel is going to make all of the money.

Here's one I received on an equipment dealer that's been in business for 70 years. 

Here’s a link for you (affiliate link if you use we both get $25 off an order) https://minoanexperience.com/join-us?

Not only did that not happen, we paid for a bunch of stuff we definitely didn't need at the time because as soon as we signed up people affiliated with epic started calling with there own amazing deal to make us profitable.

We have also been Fleetwood and Nashua home dealers.

So Dave's great theory should be called The Affiliate-IRS Method because it assures you loose the most capital possible to taxation, capital that via a mortgage is less and put's more capital in your hands to utilize and deploy. - Half of REI is about appreciation over time.

When we are asked as the owner if I am licensed and I say no every attorney or broker dealer says “that’s smart”.

I have no affiliation,  connection , other then being a satisfied client. https://ntnonline.com/Good luck and congrats!

There are a lot of broker-dealers who work in the real estate space and will do the due diligence for you and recommend several offerings.

I have also been to other Non REIA affiliated ones run by RE brokers and those were far more real.