Contractor for my first ever rehab project who can grow with me as I add new properties. 4 PM to ensure my first non-House-Hack rental operates well and can grow with me as I add more properties in the years to come. 

It is very seasonal but does very well in Summer and there are a lot of STR friendly towns.I have considered it however my current goal focuses more on a multi season rental and I am also more familiar with the non beach towns.

Rpdata.com.au is probably the best for residential dataAny of the major agencies CBRE/JLL/Knight Frank/Savills/Mirvac will have reportsPlus a lot of the publicly listed REITs will have reports too ie DEXUS/Investa/Lend Lease/Westfield/Stockland/Cromwell etc.

I’ve used public records in Texas to identify estates in transition.

At first glance, it seems title just wants you to be a member-manager which hopefully is an OA modification (not public) that can be amended back later if you want to for whatever reason.  

Institutional lenders will look at your non/short employement as a negative. 

Indeed, the FAIR ordinance is anything but fair to non-corporate landlords, seemingly punished for investing in rental houses to generate income as an alternative to stocks and bonds.A handful of opportunists likely could learn to exploit these new rules, preying on otherwise law-abiding landlords to obtain legalized shake-down payments.

There are a few areas (like mine) where a closet is considered a requirement, but it isn't actually a major thing across the country.Having said all that, I don't think a non-qualifying bedroom can't be listed as a bedroom in the listings on VRBO and AirBNB. 

This is public info and usually it will change based on seller being there a long time or something like an elderly tax rate.What are insurance costs like (we've got a lot of local variability around fire insurance for ex.)?

When the local/state government turns on you and you need to bail on your market.