If air was there on move in restoring it to working would not fall under habitability but under language related to keeping the unit in the same condition as it was when rented.

And dig into Legal entities related to real estate. 

We don’t have time to raise capital and deal with investor relations.

I read and take notes on 40 pages from these books and more every single day and I’m ready to take my next step.

We are open to occupying one unit of a duplex (to secure a lower interest rate) for example, and have a good friend who would rent a room in our residence - with an extra apartment (or possibly 2 if there is a basement) creating multiple revenue streams to quickly repay a relatively small mortgage.

a new way I am finding contractors is actually through FB Marketplace. go to your local buy/sale pages and you'll usually find a few contractors posting their work. offer to take them out for beers (on you of course) and let them know what you're looking for and if they can help.

Up to this point things have just gone rather smoothly for me (not perfect... but relatively hassle free with all due consideration to other stories I have heard).

First, it has fairly low entry cost for my first property (relatively speaking).

Basically what I'm imagining is the Marketplace Properties for Sale page here on BP but instead of just forum posts with all the details in text content and images, a database with all of the fields searchable, and then you could do things like apply the BP calculators against the numbers on the properties so you could easily pull up and compare key metrics like cap rate, COC return, etc.

@Ann Keller Hoh and @Patrick Daly, Black Diamond is also listed on the events page, our April event is about AirBnB and short term rentals.