Such a great region of the country to start for you.

While some get into investment real estate for the tax benefits, I'd venture to say nobody gets into it for the tax compliance and bookkeeping work.

Currently exploring investing in South-East Spain (Almeria) for STR.From what I read as US-resident, it's much more advantageous to invest via a Spanish SL (able to deduct costs in the tax + less transfer tax in the purchase). 

Once I know that I could better assess whether the use of debt to get started would be the best choice.All the best!

Thank you to the people that come forward and post about the bad and not just the good.

A full interior rehab will be about $40,000.  

Go search the topic "Lifestyle Asset University" here on Bigger Pockets and you will see a longer thread with a lot of opinions (most are not members) but still worth a read as there are a half a dozen paid members from our group who have commented on that thread.We were formerly called Lifestyle Asset University, but I didn't realize that you couldn't use the word University in your company name here in Utah so we changed our name to Vodyssey. 

Zach's in it for the long term.

I made some really good connections and now the rest is history. 

I hired my own crew and work with them full time. 3 months is for a 5 apartment building.