My appraiser was very open for me to provide "support" for the value and so I got no pushback.

Conversely, I also know people who find communicating with guests and cleaners to be incredibly draining, they don't know the first thing about managing an STR nor does it particularly interest them, and they would rather spend their time making money in their main job rather than taking on a side hustle that they may not be able to do as effectively.

She then tells me that she can’t come up with the money for a deposit.

Two weeks later he shows up at the unit looking for his money.

We make more money on nasty value add properties.  

Our financial support demonstrated our commitment to providing the necessary resources for successful real estate investments, enabling a smooth and profitable transaction in collaboration with our partner, Graham Lyster.

I do have money in my joint acct with my wife but she doesn’t want to touch it.

Thanks to those of you, (you know who you are) who have supported Gerry and me in this most unfortunate experience.

If you hire PM on your first property, you are just tossing money away.

For someone who is just operating a property or two through a single LLC it would be hard to justify spending a massive amount of money creating an elaborate asset protection strategy.