Looking forward to your stories and advice!

So we had it on our personal return last year and i won’t detail it but it was a bit sketch when we had to provide financials (we can redact mine but not hers long story). 

Hello Dennis,I'm glad my post could inspire and provoke thought for you.

From an investment standpoint this reminds me I believe of a Bill Cosby story line I believe.  

Period, end of story. 

So when I'm reviewing screening reports for my rentals, I like to find out the story behind an eviction - I've had good tenants with evictions on their records who never bothered to expunge their eviction from the record when they had a prior vindictive landlord (yes, such landlords do exist and give the rest of us a bad name). 

At that point I dont know investing would make any sense, I have heard scary stories I was thinking about short term rentals but that needs constant cleaning after guests and conpetition is very high my friend spent almost 200k out of pockets to buy a property for airbnb and he got 17 bookings per year....

There are some that are great for sure, but I have currently heard terrible stories about people putting money in the last 2-3 years and losing it all, capital calls and losing the whole deal due to bad bridge loans (some coming do very soon). 

I found an article on him and there has never been a success story. 

I also heard horrible stories that if you don't file it right, it will take months to evict a tenant, etc.