I do like the built in leasing that apartments offers over the OG Cozy site, but I don't really want to pigeon hole myself into the apartments.com brand (or Zillow, or any other of the type) so I'm starting to use rent redi.

You bet.

They have nice looking direct booking sites, but I'm more curious about their digital marketing training and crm software included with their package. 

Hey @Anthony Lafata I'd be happy to hop on a quick zoom call to help show you around the site.

However, on my back burner is a direct booking site and I'm leaning toward OwnerRez (once I get through Ski Season).

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

That's probably your best bet.

I will check out their site. 

That will probably be your best bet, to buy a fixer and get it cleaned up and then rent it out.Best wishes and good luck with your endeavors.  

I doubt you'll make 11% with the S&P, but it is probably still your best bet.