I hope this helps and good luck on your real estate journey!

Secondly, you'll be interested in wholesaling (which by the way is the hardest thing to do in real estate investing), and finally, you are open to flipping houses (which is the best way for a newbie to lose all of their money). 

After renting the house, you should be pretty dead on with your Bigger Pockets Rental Calculator Report, which I hope you used before you went under contract.The two biggest mistakes I see people make when investing out of state is trying to rehab a home and not doing home inspections.

If you try to go over the whole list, you’ll lose the attention of an average person and they won’t remember anything!

I hope it's useful.BTW, for me it was down to KW or the Bean Group (a regional player with 30-something offices. 

We own in Florida, but we do not own in the keys and I was hoping to get some more nuanced feedback than what I've seen in older posts (something more than "follow the law, get STR license" etc).Specifically, in the lower keys (Summerland to Key West):- how important do you find private dockage to be to 28 day "STR" guests?

Hoping to get new ideas of HELOC strategies.

Some people decide to leave their jobs to invest in real estate, which might involve buying a property that initially loses money.

There is probably a 99% chance you lose money

If we were to move out tomorrow and rent this sucker out, we'd be losing $500/month (yikes).