I see people purchasing new STR's here and others dumping their properties or converting into LTR's. 

@Dan Brewer as I'm sure you're well aware, people aren't in this because they don't understand it.

Happy to connect with Boston people.

What im hoping to gain from this group is knowledge i cant find anywhere else, i hope to meet people that i can help and people that can help me, I hope i can form good friendships on here, and i hope to find my first rental.

New to the Dallas area and look for a rhea group to connect with? 

Most people will sell you on the upside—cheap properties, high cash flow, and a growing city—but they conveniently skip over the challenges.Tenant risk is real.

Any tax knowledge of if people doing this strategy are able to take the losses from the cost seg study (on the ADU) to offset their W2 income?

But, people will always be able to see the prior listing history under the Price History section of the listing.

I've been at this since 1988 and have seen them go wonderfully well and horribly wrong.

As with most people starting out - having the 20%-30% equity to put in the deal is the challenge.