However, if your cams aren't PoE or wired, you might want to consider that as it's easier to trip or disrupt wi-fi.Sorry this happened to you and hope your future bookings and success will make this seem just a part of the learning/growing pains.

  - I have started to see a lot of my flipping clients look for funding elsewhere because Kiavi was concerned with investor concentration risk or market risk, so pretty normal growing pains, and a predictable pattern in the space from my perspective.

Because cash is the oxygen of real estate investing.If you lock up all your money in your first rental, scaling becomes painful — slow, frustrating, and dependent on strong appraisals/refinances.With $60k cash, you could:     - BRRRR a cheaper property     - Do 1–2 more flips     - Buy a small portfolio of rentals     - Increase liquidity for financing & safetyIn other words… the flip gives you options.A Hybrid Thought...If the ARV supports it, you might be able to flip and keep it:     - Do BRRRR     - Refinance after renovation     - Pull out most of your money     - Keep the cash-flowing assetBut that only works if:     - ARV is strong     - You leave little cash in the deal      - Rent covers DSCR requirementsIf your cash-out refi would leave you with negative cash flow, then holding doesn’t make sense.Since you’re:     - New,     - Low on cash,     - Doing heavy renovation, and     - Staring at a $60k lump-sum opportunity,     - the stronger financial move is usually:Flip the first deal.

It's painful to see a house that was renovated and rented, to then be torn up by jackhammering through the slab in multiple places so that the sewer lines could be replaced.

decisions.If you want, I’m happy to take a look at the addresses, scopes, and your LOC/refi idea and map out a couple concrete scenarios so you’re not guessing between four painful choices.

There are markets where developers built product relying on the mentality "build and they will come" with no coherent thesis behind why and those are markets where there will truly be long term pain. 

Plaid paints striped top may cause you pain if you have a claim as well.When you transfer from whatever vesting as real person(s) to LLC it is a sale.

It was a lot of small, consistent steps, and plenty of seasons where it felt like progress was painfully slow.

One of my biggest pain-points starting out in New Construction that I sought up people to teach me the process... and like you, I was willing to volunteer my time.

But I’m curious what it looks like for others.What’s been your biggest pain point — guest messages, cleanings, maintenance, or something else entirely?