Don to add to this .. one of my bizz partners in Napa was good friends with A Palmer and A palmer used his name on my buddies wines..

@Nicola Mislinski Maybe I should take the 400k and put it on a 600k house.

Buy at regular prices and buy wine in addition to your whiskey (our margins on liquor suck - we're lucky to make a few bucks on the average bottle).

The county in the Finger Lakes Wine country where I have several properties are considering banning STR's as well.

Napa Sonoma Lake co wine country.. the gold country.. lake Tahoe  North of Tahoe Greagle Plumas county  south to Sonora and those areas..

My wife is also a high income earner--she works in the hospitality and wine space.

Outside of real estate, I enjoy reading, drinking good wine, and hanging out with family and friends. 

Are you getting married or do you like wine? 

There are many good Contractors who still have a project go south....The reasons, in my experience, are usually one of these 3: 1) Changing the Scope Of Work, this will kill a project (and a relationship) quicker than anything 2) Micro-managing the project...y'know, hanging out on the jobsite all day long, then spending half the night there having a glass of wine with their friends and changing things, 3) Not keeping up with payments....an honest Contractor deserves to be paid promptly.Just my $.02...

If an investor doesn’t understand it’s active, then they don’t get to eat mussels in wine sauce in Europe.