Can you elaborate on your last sentence? 

Being 1099 and not having guaranteed income is challenging as is, I'm essentially dipping deep into my safety net to fund this project but the last couple of years have been great and I'm eager to get started.

I've developed my best and most long lasting relationships at meetups.

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620, many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

Last year we had a client in Ohio which needed us to be on site for half the year.

He wasn't allowed to recharacterize the passive loss incurred by the partnerships that was attributable to his share of the management fee into an active loss that could offset his active income.

I'd say for both markets some things you'd definitely want to have an idea of would be Median Sales Prices, Median Rent Prices, price-rent ratio, days on market and then also % of price increases for the last couple of years.

You must satisfy all 4 of those bullet points to take QBID for the year (the last one is easy).

If you set it up with a car rental service like Turo are likely protecting yourself/car more from potential issues and damage and may be able to keep it off platform and only make it available to your renters (not sure on that last part but just a thought).Also, from a lender perspective it could complicate things if you are looking to refinance one day and have car payments included in the lease payments/on the lease.

Spring is best time to sell, I had 13 offers on my last home in first 48 hrs, and saved >100k, why give away your hard earned equity that you took the risk on?