Have her call a few churches or similar organizations to get contact info for who to talk to.

North Linden, South of Main, Vassor Village, Woodland Park, MT Vernon, Milo-Grogan, Franklinton, Merrion Village, Hungarian Village, Southern Orchards, Driving Park, Olde Towne East, Franklin Park, King Lincoln, Old Oaks, Livingston Park are all but not limited to some areas in Columbus, Ohio I think will gentrify quickly and make for great long term buy and holds.

For context its mainly retirement communities around 2 hours either way from Las Vegas and Phoenix.

@Rich Davis "The difference is I'm in Maine, where the evictions laws lean landlord friendly.

As far as I know, your assumptions about the tax implications are correct for non residents, it was one of the main factors that stopped the idea of investing in Spain for me.

This is mainly how we find buyers to offload our learnkey properties too.

The problem is mainly a concern for people with a net worth or reasonable income. 

Im not even sure that it is impossible in those markets but the main issue is that BRRR isnt working where they want to buy not that BRRR doesnt work.  

Instead I want to take advantage of the opportunity I have of living rent free to invest my time and money in STR's to hopefully build that portfolio up and eventually make that my main source of income (I understand that will take time).

Happy to connect and work with anyone trying to expand their business.I am working on building an industrial portfolio of my own - consistently searching and analyzing deals.My main market is Southern California, but I am slowly expanding my lens across the US.Ronald Rhode and Chad Griffiths are the best content creators in the space hands down.