Non-owner occupant requires a type 2 STR license and they simply are not giving those out right now.  

Rul. 75-374, 1975-2 C.B. 261, concludes that a two-person co-ownership of an apartment building that was rented to tenants did not constitute a partnership for federal tax purposes.

You'll do better than inflation over really any period of time with well-managed and diversified investments made in static acquisitions, but you won't make real money unless you have the skill and capital to pull off 1a or 1b.I for one have been very reluctant to learn about blockchain and the market luckily I have seen how it simply affected the stock market, take BTCS for example.

Which means you can simply have people with money staying put or off on vacation while more and more people are looking to buy their first home and get out of apartments.

We are looking to buy a portfolio of 10 properties that the seller owns in an LLC by simply buying the LLC.

It has also occurred to my I can take the same $85 and simply pay the principal down each month.

We spent too much and overshot the neighborhood, so the comps simply didn't justify the valuation we were hoping for. - Be patient.

Filter, heater, etc is simply removed.  

It's a decent little rental that produces some cash flow, but we simply got traditional financing for it, requiring at least 20% down.

His rationale is that when he's looking at my tax returns he's looking at my write offs, such as depreciation, repairs/ renovation, mortgage interest, and concluding that since I'm writing off "x" amount, that I'm actually negative cash flow.