Theres houses are designed to be cool and flashy but not practical and actually poorly designed and usually poorly constructed (because of the extremely fast time frame).

Tell the attendees you will keep them notified by email list or Meetup notices, which ever you choose, and then either collect those emails, or ask them to join your group on meetup (emails are more reliable).But make no mistake, running a group is work, even if you keep it simple. 

Hi @Eli M. if you go to the National Association of Realtors website you can find the "Code of Ethics and Standard of Practice"  its an 8 page pdf.

Is this the correct way to do, common practice or safe?

It's worth going if you've never been to one before, but like I said, leave the credit cards at home.Enjoy the pumped up, enthusiastic atmosphere they'll provide, but instead of signing up for a coaching program try a different mission: Collect business cards or contact information for at least 5 people close to you (where it would be convenient for both of you to get together every 2-4 weeks), who are either at your level or one notch above.Then after the event, make it your mission to have coffee/tea/whatever with each of those people, either individually or as a group.

I'm not sure about the city of Truckee but most if not all STR in unincorporated Nevada County have the TOT collected up front by Airbnb, which is nice.

I need more practice analyzing homes...

Were you aware that if someone falsely files a return on someone and collects a refund, the IRS is powerless to do anything about it and the person's refund is simply gone?

Over the years I was really uninformed about it I thought you just collected all the rent and paid about half of what you make a month for all the expenses.

Just practice and be patient, and sooner or later you will find the right deal/ opportunity to enter the passive income dream we all share.Last, since you are military, there is someone who has had a similar situation as yourself who has succeeded.