Marlborough I understand, is really looking to add more units and have the city truly prosper so I believe you could achieve this. 

Use an online calculator like AirDna to understand what your income would likely be from the STR before jumping in.

I do understand that rental properties are a function of appreciation but wish to know what would be the best methodology to understand the overall negative cashflow to asset appreciation ratio or a metric to benchmark it against e.g. % appreciation YoY.

Thanks @Bradley BuxtonI have done very cursory investigation of the Tahoe areas, but my understanding is that it is not very friendly to STR investment (e.g. limited permits and the potential of completely banning STR's).I currently have property in a mountain resort town that is close(ish) to a metro area so we have lots of WFH employees, but it appears that the market is drying up due to RTO policies. 

Hopefully, this makes sense and I can gain insight to better understand this, thank you for reading this. purchase price: 70,000square footage of subject property: 1,500

Sec 179 allows accelerated depreciation of vehicles over 5500 lbs - and with a portion of my work being renovating properties buying a RAM was understandable.

AneU_VTSiG...I'm reading this as - you can have either one roommate if you live in a house yourself or you can have two different people rent out two rooms in your house but that's it, you can't say get a 5 br house and get 5 roommates in.So I do not understand how people can possibly be renting out houses by the room but I keep hearing about on BP podcast and other places??

@Geoffrey Rickaby if you're going to be recommending PMCs, you should better understand how each operates to protect YOUR reputation.My manager wrote a blog series here on BP about interviewing PMCs, but if I share the link here the BP moderators will consider it self-promotion:(

Hello everyone my name is sigyfredo and I'm 21 years old , so I want to start investing into rental properties and start flipping houses, I do understand that reading books will help me increase my knowledge, but wanted to ask the bigger pockets community what are some other ways y'all did to increase your knowledge?

Understand this would be highly dependent on finishes etc.