This thread has definitely run away, but amazingly still on topic, most of the time.Anyway, getting a license in my opinion is the best option, unless you do one of two things, if I followed the findings/advise on this thread correctly:1) Buy outright and then resell, (L/O, Wrap and Subject To was also mentioned but doesn't require purchase, per se), as in flipping.

So I'm not talking you out of it, or into it per se.

I live in KC which is a great market for long term rentals and multi but short term rentals in KC doesn't excite me. 3 hours SE of us is Lake of the Ozarks/Branson which are beautiful and perfect areas for it.

So the options are: You are a GC and are self managing, you are hiring a GC to manage, You are self managing and hiring your own subs, you are managing and actually performing the work.2) As far as municipal inspections go, you always need to pull a general work permit per se if you are going to be demoing and then doing an interior finish. 

Also worth nothing that managing your own properties means you're shifting passive income not subject to SE tax to active income subject to SE tax. 

Steve Cantano - Great citations.HOA liens are not, per se, my niche however I have a fellow Bottomfeeder friend who tracks sales and pursues redemptions.Since I'm a CA only investor (except passive hedge fund portfolios) I get all sorts of title challenges dropped in my lap.

Straight talking.I don't know if it's accurate to call these "feminine" principles per se, but certainly, these tenets, with respect to real estate investing, are what's up.

Se la vie.

He’s not out of the game per se. if you find a deal that works for go for it.

While the military doesn't have "felonies" per-se, this crime would have been a felony in the civilian world.