; c) invest in passive multi-family REIT type situation; d) stocks (or take a chunk of the $200K at least); e) some crypto I'll report back when my books get cleaned up for more clarity. 

Thanks Jay,I guess the question becomes following @Chris Seveney's comment, which of the two would have a higher weighting in your opinion.

they will be worth their weight in gold

And you need to take care of more basic things first, otherwise slapping an LLC on top isn't going to help.Note: Asset Protection Onion Diagram - what, when, and at what cost one should implement in terms of asset protection - https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-onion-diagram-v2 e. 

We discussed our strategy on our bid, and he typed up a P&S agreement and sent me over all the documents to e-sign.

One of the main things you get from TC and I get these e mails when I am selling and the other sides TC contacts me and says  Hey we need that lead paint disclosure or we need the property disclosure  or if we are buying Hey where is your EM  all the little details .

So was this filed on schedule E and did you deduct paper loses against a W-2 income?  

The other option is to Free Property Management software like Turbotenant.com or e-renter.com, but pay for each screening $55, which you can charge the tenant.

I cancelled all bookings, e-mailed the guests why and let them know in what fashion they could re-book and that I would honor the same price but would not allow Booking to process the reservation, and closed my account down (I had a rash of fraudulent bookings through the platform that Booking allowed to go through).

Your income is very solid, but you don't want to add dead weight to your earnings by going too big, too soon.