It was heavily dependent on the mine too.

But it's just something worth considering that the person teaching how to host appears to pretty heavily underperform even average investors in the space other than the timing of being fortunate to buy a handful of homes right before the market blew up.

I've thrown myself heavily into community projects and clubs for a while now to get my name into peoples.

For STR's Lake Tahoe has a strong market but has been heavily regulated and is now a lot more saturated. 

The numbers would have to be scrutinized pretty heavily for the SFH, especially in some hot areas.

Vacation areas seem less prone to being as heavily regulated but if there are enough complaints from full-time resident neighbors, more ordinances are bound to come to those areas eventually as well.

The consumer side is heavily regulated and it is definitely a no-no to submit directly without going through the broker, but "commercial loans" are not as heavily regulated.

I live in CA so I need to rely heavily on property management as my local adviser for purchasing and managing.

Work with a local lender/credit union early in the process to figure out how much they'll lend you on a HELOC and at what rate/term, as this will heavily dictate what price-range homes you should be looking at.

My husband and I have relied pretty heavily on "back of the napkin math" for analyzing our own deals, which worked fine when we're just using our own money, we're very familiar with all the costs involved, and nobody else is involved in the deal so there's just been no need to make it more complicated than that.