That way, you still get to be the nice buyer versus not-nice buyer.

That’s why I was thinking that setting up the LLC to buy the property would ‘satisfy’ the self employment rule, but that would obviously be passive income versus earned income...  

You can run the numbers and see if that makes sense versus buying all cash. 

Yes, a 30 day min would definitely help build the coliving community versus STR higher revenue. 

If we had 10 houses versus 3 or 4, theoretically that could be twice the work. 

@Jonathan Escobar Joining the military should first and foremost be a decision based on stronger motives than a savings difference of 3% on a loan, 0 down with a VA loan versus 3% down with a FHA.

Your current policy should give you the fees to do it so you need to weigh the cost of fees versus opportunity cost you’d miss by not investing in what you want versus paying the fees then investing to make your own returns

But there's a big difference between investing in a REIT versus a "rental property."

I would like to get everyone’s viewpoint on what is the approximate number of units where you need a full-time on-site manager versus just off-site manager?

@Ludovic Ott  Keep in mind using private lenders you're going to be paying roughly double or triple bank rates.  12% versus 4%.