Sophisticated investors invest on cashflow where the rents exceed the mortgage plus expenses (and enough money to pay for professional property manage to do our dirty work).

For other less sophisticated platforms like VRBO we have to use trust accounting. 

The mixed component make it a more sophisticated investment.If you look into securities law in an effort to see if you need accredited investors take what you read with a grain of salt. 

Yea he's an old timer, but he really made money with real estate, and had a pretty sophisticated way of analyzing and investing in RE.

We use Streamline PMS and they have options for STR and MTR, however Streamline is a very sophisticated expensive software designed for medium to large property managers.If you are self managing 1 unit (or a few) you should be able to use the settings on Airbnb/VRBO to make specific length of stay requirements/pricing etc. 

I'm sure their common sense and financial advisors would appreciate long term written leases with escalation clauses adjusted to the CPI annually from sophisticated long term investors. 

If one wants to look at a different set of semantics, I suppose you could talk in terms of "sophisticated" and "unsophisticated" private money lenders.

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I think that it may be better to appear to be more of an entry-level type of guy rather that sophisticated educated person.

This gives some insight as to the level of sophistication that may be introduced in any topic.