Professionals find good deals, operates them professionally hopefully providing a profit without you have to deaL with the issues that face a landlord every day. 

Those deals still exist, I see them every day. 

My neighbor did STR on 2 properties in Long Beach, but only allowed 30+ day rentals so that he did not have to register with the city.

Curious to know if anyone else does the model this current day. 2019 was a different ballgame than todays market for sure and I think the model can work but it's very few and far between where the numbers will make sense in todays market.

I didn’t want to be waiting days for them to get back to me about edits to the purchase agreement.

At the end of the day, losing $10k is really not a lot in the grand scheme of real estate investing, and given the seeming high volatility of this market ($275k to $220k, presumably in a matter of months), and the generally high monthly cost of HML, I would get out quickly and think of the loss as the cost of education.At least in my area (Cincinnati, OH) I don't see the market dramatically improving even as we get into the spring buying season, and, honestly, I only see mortgage rates continuing to climb for the foreseeable future, taking more and more buyers out of the market.

Here are some things that have been most impactful for me:*Reinvested ALL profits from Day 1 until it was time to walk away from W2.

The online world has become so negative these days about people complaining, criticizing or putting people down that it becomes very discouraging for a new investor to share their experience. 

@Laura YelinI’ve never been, but when considering new markets I usually just fly there and spend a few days there scoping it out.

What do you do to relax at the end of the day?