I lived well below my means, worked a full time job for years while doing this on the side, persisted when others did not... and now I am enjoying the fruits of my labor.  

As an employee of a MF Development Company, your boss will expect you to dedicate full-time hours to your job.

Many people don't want to self manage from out of state, and professional managers can suck up alot of the cash flow, and not do as great of a job as you would've hoped. 

Banks really don't understand crypto, and the ones that do hate it because it POTENTIALLY puts t hem out of a job. 

You definitely want to use a thorough screening method like rentprep.com that gets their income, credit, background check, and call at least 3 references (make sure to verify them by address/job and then their name).  

I have done BRRRRs in Milwaukee for a decade+ and if I am not on the job 2-3 times a week, things go sub-optimal.

This will increase the return above what can be obtained on a passive investment.The flipside of having the power to control everything is that it can be alot of work (and a full-time job if a person is putting in sweat equity).

I think chatting with hosts is the BEST way to get sound and clear cut data (given they keep P/Ls, etc.) because I know I've heard from some folks rumor the idea that Airdna skews data a little bit to make numbers look better than actuality to encourage folks to invest in the area & use their platform to see data.

Both me and my wife have full time jobs. 3) That $5875 is the 25% of contribution that S-corp can make towards employee retirement. 4) Thank you so much for improving my understanding on how 401K limits are calculated.

My contractor mentioned he might've left them since he felt bad about up and leaving the job.