I'm building a container home STR just down past the border in Arkansas near Table Rock Lake.

Expand, formalize, give those with the capital but without the capabilities of operations like your brilliant Engineering mind naturally has, a chance to invest IN YOU. 

Hoping they didn't buy within Temecula for purpose of STR as the city banned STR's in January 2020 within city limits which go right up to wine country border. 

It isn't a formal meetup per se, but you can meet other folks who are investors in a more casual setting.

The taxes are calculated on your gross income from the rents.Either way if you do decide to do STRs I suggest you educate yourself with the basic education or formal training out there.

Have a formal written and adopted PRP3.

Thats on top of the formal training programs which basically run all the time.

I never had a formal contract from him but I do have his $1900 deposit.

Since buying a "second" home is formally 10% down at least (I will say there are some lenders who are not doing 10% down right now due to volatility of the market).  

I went out and crated a custom data base of every single landowner with 10 acres or more of visible timber ( via aerial photography)  from the CA Oregon border to just south of Tacoma WA and from the top of the coast range to the top of the cascades.. literally 20,000 leads.... from that data base we had the reverse directory..