REI is a passion of mine, and its the key to my dream life, not riches and material things, but a life that I can spend a majority of my time with my future family, and my wife, and traveling.

We travel a lot and I can get her nice things- and our marriage gained tremendous strength.

They clearly all have poor financial and other habits, as inevitably borne out on review of their actual report details.

I’m intending to down the road buy a lake house 2-3hrs from where I live now and I want to manage it remotely so I can keep visitors checked in without having to travel.

I travel for clients as needed and work in my office in Michigan. 

You can also get tax write offs if you travel to the property or spend money on the LLC for business.

I would assume that using the points for personal travel would be a conflict of interest (and illegal?)

I travelled down there last year and he was gracious enough to meet up and explain what he was doing down there.

Hey Brian, something I would look into is specifically renting out to traveling nurses and other medical professionals.

I've always been interested in tiny house living, or eventually buying an RV to travel, so living in about 1,100 square feet under this house hacking scenario would be a soft step towards towards that.