Then again, this works until the "money partner" has a heart attack, dies, and you need to liquidate the property ASAP to payback the estate.

Do you have a "plan of attack" for the market?

this is because STRs are under attack from multiple directions.  

However, Proposition 13 is definitely under attack in California. 

geez, you guys lose some money in real estate by not understanding it and then you want to attack anyone that has been successful. 

Seriously, seven years after being attacked by sickos calling themselves Muslims, this country elected a man named "Barack Hussein Obama" to the highest office in the nation, and kept him in that office for the next eight years.

We found out they were planning a meeting to assumedly plan their attack against us, so my very courageous partner reached out to one of the neighbors and asked if he could attend. 

The 200-year history of technology investing is covered in the book Engines That Move Markets (SPOILER ALERT: retail investors collectively have always lost money on tech IPOs).The old American joke is that when an industry is young, it wants the rules relaxed so it can more easily take business away from the dinosaurs that are holding back innovation (remember the 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial that attacked IBM?).

Thats plenty of time for them to wreck my property causing me a huge loss and heart attack. 

Not attack and berate one another.