I went ahead and invested but couldn't make the trip out to St Louis in February. 

I am getting inundated with social media blasts and postcards from the airlines, cruise ships, and Disney offering substantially discounted trips.

I am about an hour an half away from Bakersfield and have made about 5 trips up there since the beginning of April..  

I appreciate your remarks about how BP (and myself) moderate, that feels like a high compliment coming from you - the Blue Hulk (lol) I preach transparency on the site on a daily basis and while this obviously isn't my favorite post on the forums it would be hypocritical of me to remove it because I know the job of us mods is not to remove what we disagree with, but rather remove what breaks the rules.

What are everyone's favorite ways of making money through real estate?

ya thats a favorite trick of many of these types of companies hey will we pay you back or refund your fee you paid for our program in exchange for an NDA and public retraction.. we see that on BP often mainly with trianing courses were the trainee demands a refund based on their cancellation rights or their opinion the program sold was not what was represented.. next thing you see is that person post a glowing post about the person they just complained about.. so you know they did that either to get a refund or signed an NDA in a way I cant blame them as folks do whatever they need to do to get their money back and If they went into debt to pay for training like many do .. there are substantial financial ramifications for them and getting paid back gets them out of jail so to speak

I'll DM you some of my favorite lenders!

A recent Bookings.com reservation experienced two date modifications without any compensation to us, despite the guest purchasing trip insurance.

For example, tenant trips a breaker and calls to say electricity isn't working and all it needed was someone to flip the breaker.

That's always my least favorite part of taking on a new managed property is going through what is needed with the owner, because it's always expensive and they're always under-equipped.After the initial setup it's the same.