Look them up online, call and interview several of them.

I am in the Tampa Florida area. 

The main thing I see when coming across this is deferred maintenance.

I think there's a path to refinance that would flip me into positive cash flow, but I'm coming up short on ideas. 

Owner ended up settling with the tenant, but then we had to threaten to sue our own client to get them to pay our legal fees.- Owner must sign a Hold Harmless to indemnify us against any potential tenant lawsuits relating to the work their contractor is doing.--- Another lawsuit resulted from owner's contractor taking down basement handrail to get supplies down the steps, then they didn't put it back and tenant fell down the stairs.- We also negotiate a reasonable completion date, depending on the Scope Of Work (SOW). --- Who gets all the phone calls and wastes time calming a tenant down because the owner's contractor doesn't show up as scheduled after they took time off from work or a 3 day job takes 3 weeks?

This is good because you don't have to come up with the money, but you do have to tell all.

The 6 months was up on 1/1/2021. 

I’m brainstorming ideas on how I can market myself to potential mentors in the STR game in order to gain experience.

Hello Trying to get back on the real estate investing space and build new connections that can help me to speed up the process.

This means you will be coming out of pocket more.