Also, If you have read some of the horror stories here, you know that screening your next tenant is of utmost importance in California or any market where landlord tenant laws favor the tenant.

We had MAJOR construction happening on 3 sides of our 2 STRs (back yard - 8 story building and both sides - 19 stories & 4 stories) for over 2 years!

If you wouldn't mind, feel free to share your story on:- Your first deal (successes and failures)- Where you're at nowI'm excited to hear what everyone has to share.

You have owned them for seven years and you have not built up significant equity? 

Ask me about midwest...another story all together!

If you have good or bad success stories related to out of state investing, I would definitely like to discuss those. 

If you wouldn't mind, feel free to share your story on:- Your first deal (successes and failures)- Where you're at nowI'm excited to hear what everyone has to share.

Funny story of why I left business and went into full time real estate investing 22 years ago.  

There is no horror story around that number in Baltimore.Getting a EIN or ITIN should take 2 weeks , not sure about corona times, it might be longer.I think withouldings are %7.5 for MD and %7.5.

Basically AirBnB arbitrage with a better sounding story.