It seems now we have a bull market and if it starts going the other way I would like my rental to at least continue to produce monthly cashflow...that's where I'm at now...still researching and seeing my options... $46,800/year in cash flow with $500k is a nice yield at 9.36% ($46,800/$500,000).

cIn other words, I do understand when the realtor fee for a 400k is $20k. but when I sell a home for 2.2M and I pay a realtor $110k things start to not make sense.

Congratulations on your impressive success since 2021—that's quite an achievement to have closed over 100 transactions in such a short time.

If you can rehab and refinance (BRRRR) to extract all investment and achieve neutral cash flow you would have infinite return (most of my RE investments have achieved infinite return but the cash neutral has in particular gotten a lot more challenging when the rates rose starting Q2 of 2022).Any money extracted via a refinance is tax deferred. 

So I'm interested in getting started in purchasing and running self storage facilities and want to learn more.  

When I started in 2019 most of my bookings were from VRBO and now I get most of mine from AirBnb. 

I remember when Lending Home, now Kiavi started, there really wasn't anyone other than banks and private individuals that would finance a new build...and those were hard to find.

Typically starting with a smaller rehab budget of $50K or less (maybe a max of $75K) and avoiding a 1 to 1(or higher) ratio of purchase to rehab costs is recommend when you are first starting out. 

If enough people reach out, eventually it would be great to start a meetup group for STR investors in the area.

Under "Start a Business", choose "Limited Liability Company" and follow the directions.