No reason to believe I won't receive $50 per month for the life of this fund. 

You’ll find properties specifically zoned for short-term use, which makes your life so much easier.

Quote from @Sanjay Bhagat: 1) Is there a syndicate/s in BP which has gone through all the 4 real estate life cycle (recovery, expansion, hyper-supply, and recession) ?

I know, there are plenty of red flags there, but I do believe it is worth the risk when I consider how happy it makes my wife, how life-changing it will be for the family, how minor the financial impact will be on me, and how it gives me the opportunity to practice the steps of real estate investing with forgiving tenants.Finally, I am going to attempt to self manage as nothing comes close to cash-flowing if you include PM costs.

I did a live in flip but hind sight I would have done better with a MF3) Use the excess money to snag a couple dealsCan't change the past, if we all had a crystal ball it would make life amazing.

Well when life puts lemons in your mailbox, make lemonade with them.

Keep in mind that many of these cheap homes are selling for less than a third of their insurance replacement value, which really means that the land has negative value - let that sink in.Most buyers who can actually qualify for a mortgage will get a PA for $200-300k and desperately want to upgrade their life.

My thought: 70k won’t change my life.

A simpler but maybe less sexy option is to give the money away until its gone.

However as you correctly point out this is far more risky and or its risk capital compared to buying a income property.. but the reward can be strati-spherically higher .. not just a little bit but it can be life changing profits on some of these deals.