Such luxury as indoor/outdoor pool, park for skateboard, tennis court, tiki bar with dance floor… of course if you need to think about the ROI and how much maintenance it takesBest ROI items are - big screen TV, hot tub, playground, PS5, BBQ…The issue is cheaper items require more maintenance.

Then my wife went to a 3-day training herself and ended up signing up for the 40k course and an additional 25k coaching course.

For STR, AirDNA is the most popular option of course, but the pricing model per city is rough (if it's still like that).

You'd hope they won't be that stupid and kill the goose that laid the golden eggs or they'll ultimately pay the price at the ballot box, like the previous Portuguese government.As is often the case, that kind of article sadly doesn't provide the necessary context to the uninformed reader - and I'm not talking about you, of course :). 

(except for the deadbeats of course) 

Bob is very good on the customer support and that being said... they are the only company other than myself that I have invested with  basically EVER... as I do my own deals.But I had money stacking up in my SDRA and of course I can't self deal.. so I chose one of his new investments which is more akin to what I like.. quicker turn and high IRR...

there are of course more creative strategies to reduce that up front outlay, or recoup your capital, like, say, the BRRRR method. but they are time and energy intensive and certainly not hands-off. 

We recently purchased our "forever" home together in another county and applied for a homestead but of course we were denied because they found out we had 3 active ones in another county.

If I had been tracking the assets via accounting, I would simply make a journal entry showing the LLC's assets and liabilities going to zero and transferring them to the Holding LLC or the LLC Members. correct accounting only and yes there are bank accounts (of course)

Of course this all depends on if you are buying locally, right?