For example, I've had a couple of 3+ bedrooms sit for a longer period of time because they only had one parking space available (and no on-street options nearby).

Reason being, I hired a property management company (just now) and they're wonderful, they start officially in a couple days. 

We had a couple companies come in and give wild quotes to rework our system, then found a guy who showed up with schematics and trade journal articles on our particular system, spent 2 hours educating us on it, then cost about $500 to go around and fix all the crappy work previous "contractors" did to the system to try "fixing" it. 

I’ve had a couple of properties over the years that I think would’ve worked, but I was concerned about who would run the operation.

My experiences were a couple of years ago and I was originally told the appraisal had been assigned and the rate would be $780 but then later I was told that appraiser was cancelled and they'd found someone else who it was assigned it for $935.

US debt is not going to be so much for making wealth as much as for preserving wealth.This lesson came home to me talking to a guy near my STR in Florida a couple of years ago from the Middle East.

@Suhaib RehmanI'm up here in the Tahoe area and have a couple of insurance broker resources.

Although in the last couple deals most have come out as 506C deals where only accredited investors are allowed, there are still 506B syndications where you can be a sophisticated investor (self proclaimed) so you don't have to be accredited.

I have been listening to BiggerPockets for a couple of months now and have been doing my own research over the past several months as well.

I see you trying to pull one over on a couple of people...