I heard they are scamming people, but never dealt with them personally

I've done this with my properties because I'm well known in my small town and don't want people to know what I own.LEGAL PROTECTION: By placing your assets in an LLC, you are legally separating them from your personal assets.

Most were from people who could barely put a sentence together and listing their whole life sob story.

I’m looking forward to meeting great people and maybe a mentor along the way.

It was a giant PITA but I love AirBnB.Tips, pay your taxes, comply with the rules, be a great and personable host (I keep in touch with most of the people who stayed with me), and have faith that people in general are good and be good back to them.

California is pro-ADU right now so they are definitely pro-housing, but turning a single into a duplex is not always as easy as people think.

For example, TenantCloud will push (syndicate) your advertised rental to multiple websites at once, casting a wider net and increasing the chances of finding a renter.No matter how wide you cast the net, you still need to have some pre-screening requirements to weed out the people that are wasting your time.

I suck at predictions as do most people, but here is my best guess on Florida. 

Just realize that if you buy real estate with a heloc, be careful as now you are basically leveraging existing assets for new assets and many times people get over levered and in trouble in those scenarios.

However, I personally go 1 step further as many people have outsized debt obligations. relative to their income.