Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies that spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

In addition I am looking to purely invest not reside in the property. 

Ping me if you come to Greenville again, happy to get together for some food and drink. 

I don’t drink either.

Do you want to continue investing purely in STRs or are you interested in expanding your strategy?

Any estimates therefore are pure speculation so, if I was on your side, that's what I would tell you and I wouldn't make any speculative suggestion that helps me sell to you. 

Actually taking the time to dive into, and learn real estate in a way that is scalable is like drinking from a fire hose, and theirs plenty of water!

The only way I would let a tenant paint is if I could set up a lawn chair, grab a drink and watch them for entertainment.

This is purely my opinion.

It took the company about 15 yrs of being around and building their portfolio before the two principals of the company were able to remove themselves from all personal guarantees and get to purely non-recourse debt with bad boy carveouts.When looking at MF loans, you can often find non-recourse debt on acquisition financing as low as about $1mm loan balance, even with no real experience (granted, you will need an experienced management company lined up and personal financial statements showing a net worth equal to loan balance, but you are not putting your personal financials at risk like many commercial loans).