A few tips to get started: focus on networking with local investors, attend meetups or join online forums, and consider reading books like "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" or "Rich Dad Poor Dad."

A place that my boys will want to come and visit many times.This place seems great, and in a great location but also based on everything I've researched and read on the interwebs a bad investment property :-( At what pricing does it start to make sense do you all think?

Hey everyone, I am looking for information about Florida market, seeing how the houses are so pricy (Dania beach, Hollywood, Miami area) what would be the best strategy to start a STR with out having to fork out all my savings in one property.

I am honestly clueless about how to start or make the move.

., I always found that the steepest part of my learning curve as I transitioned from SFR to STR to Commercial land development and MF (all using 1031 exchanges) was learning what "didn't translate" from the prior type. 

In the near term appreciation is not guaranteed, but over a long hold it has been a virtual guarantee as it has occurred for every 12 year period going back to start of price records and the 12 year was the Great Recession. - equity pay down is significant on expensive property.So if using 50% expense ratio, if you are less negative than market rent, you are likely doing better than most local RE investors.  

We have also started using our 401K’s to take loans out to purchase properties.

If you have more than yourself that will need to have access to the CRM to share task or contacts, that's when CRM software starts to make sense.

The ratio of new jobs to new home starts is a staggering 2:1 making that growth sustainable.

Do your due diligence on their content first and they will be a good place to start.