Walking into the meetup venue, I was expecting a VIP club of sorts complete with arrogant rich people who wanted to brag about how many Bentleys they had in the garage. 

I think I'd be better off building a traditional apartment, plus it would diversify my holdings a little better.That said, VR property is great, if you can keep your sanity through the summer.

The manufacturers of Traditional Self-Storage Buildings (Trachte, Betco, Janus, Mako, USC, etc.) also build portable units that can be delivered already assembled, or erected on-site.  

You are in good company on this website because most of us are here pursuing our own side businesses so that we will not have to rely on the income of a traditional job.

It won't happen over night but with all this guru  newbie i wanna get rich with no money real estate going on and people like we see posting that have little to experience and just don't really care if they close unless they can flip.Complaints are streaming in and one day there will be task forces then enforcement actions and those that get busted will be scapegoats and so on and so forthwhy people think they can get in the middle of peoples largest investment and basically have little to no clue on how the industry or business works.. is really lost on me.. both ethically and morally.  

This might be a solution to your self employment / bank not wanting to loan problem.That said hard money loans are short term so if you are wanting to do a rental you will want to explore a good exit strategy such as refinancing with a traditional lender once you have seasoning.

I think you'll likely have to go through a regular short sale process to get a discount from the second, assuming it's a traditional lender.

Originally posted by @Rich Ng:yes, be careful as to which state your property is in. 

And is not a get-rich-quick guru."

Our job has nothing to do with real estate, but we fell in love with investing due to the influence of "Rich dad, Poor dad" and HGTV show.