Unless your mechanically handy your maintenance costs will eat you up.  

Meaning me and my partner  would have to eat that loss and come out of pocket to augment the rent to pay the full mortgage for at least a decade or so .

That's going to eat time, and that's too devastating.

It really is a different animal than either long term or short term rentals so it's best to seek advice from others with experience in this niche.

Previously I had learned about junior mortgages, but Dean's course focused on first mortgages, which I did not have any experience and are a different animal than seconds or junior liens.

That’s why STVR managers don t rely on property appreciation to be successful. “ You can t eat appreciation”.Professional , small business owners and high income investors don t buy into syndications where syndicators dock them with high front end expenses.

Desperate people will eat it up though thinking it will help.

HOA and management eat most of my profits...The house has a 7.25% interest rate.

Don’t the closing costs from buying and selling an investment property eat up all the appreciation (and mortgage principal paydown)?

I do not have much knowledge on real estate but I am the hitting  books: BRRRR by David Greene, Estimating Rehab cost by J.Scott, Investing real estate with no/low money down by Brandon Turner and finally, Rental property investing by Brandon Turner.Outside of real estate, I enjoy swimming, bike riding, watching anime, playing video games and interests in the stock/house market.Excited to learn and connect with you all!