They can spiral out of control quickly.Create scalable systems.

But I read about changes coming (stricter rent control, moratorium etc) If you were to sell, I'd reinvest that money in a different market.

Possibly their story is true (either a real emergency, or realizing that a downturn in parent's condition was eminent).

I'm about to turn 26 in three weeks and that means getting kicked off my parents blue cross blue shield policy. 

I’ve also had guests book under their parents accounts, which is a bummer when you realize it later after the place is trashed.

Both of her parents have died and left the home to her and her brother.

Talk to your parents and see if they might be willing to co-sign a mortgage and you could buy a place for you to live in and rent the other rooms out. 

However we paused for Covid, and are trying to get it back up and running, but Ive been crazy busy with how the market has been and my partner @Kevin Leahy has been equally busy being a new parent.

How Can I Get Started"[1] Knowledge of what you want to do, and what you don't want to do.For instance I want to make money by housing people in clean decent housing (for a good profit), but I don't want to be the guy doing it in dangerous areas, or in rent controlled areas.

We are selling and doing a 1031 but it has complicated matters with my parents on the title because I have a second 1031 rolling (parents not on that title) and want to combine proceeds into a single replacement.