More about the concept of STR tax savings is here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1122635-the-s...As to one CPA saying that your losses would still be passive, we cannot comment.

Nor would paying people to moderate.

People like to rent from a person not a 'brand', it's more personal.

I've exchanged our place with another host by on a 1-1 bases.Host share seems to have an interesting concept of exchange available nights but within 5 days.....so what typically is not rented.

People's brains will explode.

There's a reason that people try to buy properties off-market and that is because you can find sellers who care more about terms than maximizing returns.So start with a conversation: you already presumably have some rapport since it's your landlord and you've spoken before.

It's honestly insane how you people call yourselves investors yet your never prepared for hardships or things that come up.

I believe if people make money and there is sufficient housing supply, housing will become affordable. 

- At a high level often people set goals that don’t align with their overall life goals.

Dumb Debt also means that the owner takes on recourse debt and personally guarantees it instead of non-recourse debt or other people’s debt (OPD) or cross collateralizes it with highly appreciated assets with low debt to value ratios.