Given your previous career, your goals, and wanting to diversify your investments, I'm wondering if you might find value in the PassivePockets community, it's a community with private forum dedicated to passive investing in syndications.

I would have to get with the property manager and mimic the exact plans they have set up in the lease, all of which were probably customized by the PM to get a few extra dollars.  

Getting a loan to payoff another loan with a lower interest rate doesn't make any sense. we do private lending and can get double digits returns consistently.

Whether we’re flipping a house, helping a client find their perfect home, or designing a custom renovation, everything we do adds value—and that’s the ultimate goal.

I use pricelabs and agree that Airbnb’s interests are with the customer not the host.

HML is expensive, better to use private money from friends or family. 

Brandon Turner talked about it in his 2nd book, The book on real estate investing, he got a private money lender for one of his first deals from someone he went to church with.

Many of my customers who are traveling nurses buy condos or townhomes in Florida as vacation homes, then rent them out when they're not in town.This system has proven to be very lucrative, as it allows them to service the mortgage debt and generate a good cash flow.

This is in a town that has a very good Private College - Baylor University.

I suspect build cost in CA are closer to 400 a foot than 200 like many other areas and of course far higher for the custom homes.