Good tenants in these multi-family are the best sources, they know every movement and let me know of negative activity first in many cases. 

My project in the coming weeks is to source less expensive insurance.

Finding a good mentor can help, education helps, sources like BP can help ultimately action is required.  

It makes more sense for them to keep that cost "in house" then to put source it.

Unlike other sources, you will have full access to critical information like the Agent-to-Agent remarks.

You can use the free versions of Airdna and Data Rabbu to see how well those sources predict it could do. 

Does anyone have any experience with receiving any grant funding, whether be it government or private sector? I've been looking at different programs, mostly through the government for areas that I'm interested in inv...

The 'rule of thumb' that everyone should ALWAYS follow is... educate yourself and verify everything - Whenever you put money into any investment you need to research the rules that apply to that investment strategy from alternate sources and verify what you are being told - Never make an investment if you don't understand the issues and verify every claim made through county public records and other, 3rd party sources. 

@Vy LeRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

What Zach is saying here is that you won't be able to utilize the "STR Loophole" which refers to using any net loss from the STR business to offset any income from other sources like W2 income or 1099 business income.