suggest you start with Dave Ramsey principals ... then move out from there.there is some big huge fallacy  that Real estate is going to let you quit your job and your going to have all this time for the kiddos etc.this will never happen in the short term with rental property.. you build a nice base for retirement in 30 plus years for sure.. but for short term replace your income and have all this free time you need to make transactional income with big hits.. your not going to get their with 200 to 300 a month cash flow on a levered up rental . 

Today I invest passively in real estate, putting small amounts ($5K) in different passive investments (such as syndications and notes) each month through an investment club.

Just did it two months ago.

I am fourth generation for a family owned management/development/consulting company based in Southern California but I am in Idaho for college around 9 months out of the year.

Buy and hold in Hawaii doesn't usually pan out unless you're willing to go negative monthly (often considerably) to maybe gain some appreciation over time.

Everyone finds the rooms too small or something that does not fit their family,etc.I am at the point of breaking even but in a month I will be losing money because of the Hard Money lender payments.

Also, in this hot buying market for the last three years, I only need the first month and my listing pictures. 

The make monthly lease payments to me until the are mortgage ready within 24months.

Purchase price: $340,000 Cash invested: $100,000 This is a Mother/Daughter with a water view - We rent it for over $3000 a month What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

It was purchased by a flipper on 12/13/2023, just 6 months ago, for 395K.