These included modernizing the interior, enhancing curb appeal, and updating all systems.

Any real estate ventures would be things I consider fun where I can participate in some fashion without doing the bulk of the work and I would derive some autonomy, mastery, and purpose goals from.  

There is also one mentioned a lot on this forum that has a long thread that someone shared the investors are wiped out, just not officially because the sponsors are trying to scrape up as much money through capital calls to get back their own money that they provided to the syndication in the fashion of loans. 

They have Waikiki for more "modern" Hawaii, rustic Kauai or very traditional Hawaiian fishing "village" like in Milo'ili.- Some Hawaiian towns are quite affordable and the living cost is not much different than LA or Bay Area.- But I think what makes the difference between Hawaii and Florida is that in Florida you still live in mainland.  

Some colors go awesome with older places, others with more modern places.  

My tenants ended up going straight to me because the MC wasn’t dealing with issues in a timely fashion.

Our first house in Highland Park will make a great rental property with low operating expenses, but our current house in Saint Anthony Park is a higher-end, modernized home that would make an exceptional profit  if we sold it (as we did a complete renovation ourselves) but would be break-even or negative when renting.

This sounds like the modern day REI version of the Nigerian prince scheme.

The appeal of the house is it's had massive remodeling done in the past 4 years upstairs and is completely modern there, just had some poor craftmanship on a couple areas (tile work primarily).  

David Orr started Tax Modern and wrote that linked article--I linked his BP profile.