Any guidance from experienced investors, real estate professionals, or anyone who has faced a similar situation would be greatly appreciated. 

“Money goes where money is treated best.”Your future ability to attain and maintain financial freedom depends on the city where you invest.Investment TeamAn essential location selection criterion is an experienced local investment team.

For example, your market is experiencing vacancies at 5% or 7%..

These successful managers are highly experienced and manage a large number of properties.ConsiderationsLocation is the most important investment decision you will make.

The requirement to do this generally involves an experienced GC signing on the borrowing entity as a 20+% owner thus making them a signatory on the loan and responsible for the debt which in most cases is not very easy to find.

Also, I would check reviews and previous sales experience. 

Quote from @Tod DuBois: Another Furnished Finder POT cancelled on me after I went out of my way and paid to review them on Key Check and signed up for Key Check contracts, made two contracts, allowed a pet and still, two days before the check-in, they did not sign.

If possible, in the future I would try to obtain a copy of a standard Condo questionnaire from the HOA prior to the mortgage application process and ask your lender to review it in advance in order to mitigate some of the time and costs risks associated.

Rents have softened, though, and currently experiencing an extended vacancy in one.The advice you're hearing here is sound. 

When it was released, the reviews were thru the roof.