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Sales team is dishonest, multiple people get stolen from by members in the community every single week.

Outside of real estate, I’m a huge sports fan, so you can usually find me glued to almost every game on the weekends.My interest in real estate began as I explored different ways to generate passive income, which ultimately led me to the BiggerPockets community.

My bank connection breaks multiple times a year, and we are going on 2 months with no offered solution from Stessa other than they are working on it. 

I invested in Jacksonville, FL, because my old job would fly me there multiple times yearly.

@Chris Ke With $200K for a down payment and the ability to invest full-time, consider starting with a 4-plex or multiple single-family homes (SFHs) within a 5-hour drive of Los Angeles in areas like San Bernardino or Riverside.

Multiple offers situations are the rare exception, not the norm.

You may be able to see if a retailer still sells the 2024 version.If you can't get the one time purchase, you would need to see if the cost is beneficial.For real estate -  Quickbooks desktop > Quickbooks online because you can set up multiple entities within quickbooks desktop and not pay an additional cost per entity that Quickbooks online would charge you.Best of luck! 

Quote from @Tod DuBois: Hostaway appears to integrate with the multiple channels - but I hate to do a software setup and learn it's not a good place to do what I need to get done (which is work as little as possible and optimize my occupancy).

Hi Vinay, I own multiple properties and live in Columbus.