My name is Wes and I live about an hour north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Looking to get into real-estate investing with long term rentals, BRRR, and House hacking.Currently looking to also find other other local people to chat to about real-estate and how to get started in our currently price inflated Ontario market.Let me know if you're in my area!!

Im not an STR SME - I would check with Mike Savage and Dan Rivers - theyre the local experts on STRs.

Please message me and I can answer any questions you may have on real estate, local meetups or the local area.  

As for finding a contractor, asking local investors for recommendations is a great start.

Favorable Legal Framework for Foreign InvestorsGermany offers a straightforward and investor-friendly property market, with laws that protect the rights of both local and international investors.

Basically, more than a certain amount of STR and MTR in the same building were considered a hotel and I would have had to have 24/7 staff on site.Were you able to get around that with the local municipality?

I've also signed up for New Orleans REI meet ups in the upcoming weeks in hopes of making valuable connections in the local market. 

Evan,  As a local broker, I’ve assisted many clients with the entity transfer process, often referred to as a "drop and swap."

Make sure the zoning, local building department/regulations, and neighborhood allow you to put a tiny house on your property and rent it out.If that is not possible, using that money for the next property makes sense.In general, I think increasing housing density will help provide more badly needed housing affordably.To Your Success!

Look up local investors on social media and follow them and comment and like their posts so they get used to seeing your name.