open to any advice, recommendations or past experiences.  

The short term rental business has been fine, up until this month where I saw the lowest bookings since opening.

I am looking for any recommendations on how to properly scale this idea over the first few years conservatively and not wanting to over use leverage and debt by starting small in duplex and being open to triple/quadplex in the future if the right opportunity presents itself.

These sellers might be more open to offers to accept payments over time. 

Open houses are typically used to generate leads, not sell houses.

Be prudent and cautious, but take calculated risks.REI meetups are a great place to meet like minded people and connect.

If anyone here wouldn't mind me reaching out to you on occasion, please let me know (especially anyone in Las Vegas!!).

I also hope to continue to grow my network and meet other like minded individuals and mentors to help advance my investing business.Cheers!

@John Reagan Johnson hope you don't mind a PMC answering, but most of our clients hire us because:1) They live out of state and don't have time & expertise to remote manage2) They don't have the time to manage3) They don't feel they have the necessary expertise and/or don't want to risk learning as they go and making an expensive mistake.Go read Kiosaki's Cash Flow Quadrant book.

I don’t necessarily see 10-20 unit properties listed here but a lot of inventory for 2-6 units if you are open to smaller numbers.