The Midwest is probably your best bet for a number of reasons.

I've stuck with the tried and true reasons I've heard to keep my search ranking high (quality photos, stellar reviews, updates to my listing) and that helps but in slow season, when I'm not willing to cut my rates as much as some of my competitors, it can be a ghost town.  

This is the heart of the reason housing isn't mroe affordable, that landlords bear these types of costs every day.You could probably find cheaper labor, especially to haul away the junk, but not easily as an out of state investor. 

If the applicant comes from the pool of people that I or my tenants know, I use real estate as a way to give back as many of my tenants will not qualify credit wise or may even have a criminal background or would struggle for another reason if I were to just stick to the "background/credit check" criteria. 

I mainly was curious about what legal grounds we have in order to proceed, since the PMA doesn’t specifically state “agent won’t grant criminals unsupervised access to your vacant property”, I figured that was just given!

I'm still struggling to get my first AirBnB but values are rising, gross annual yield is mainly above 10%

I currently own and self-manage two STRs in Maine and should be closing on a small 'cabin campground' with 10 cabins nearby that will also be operated as STRs. 

However, our goal is to help 100k investors obtain financial freedom - hence the reasons why we provide many videos, podcasts, programs, and services to help with this journey.Unfortunately, we cannot promise that every deal we help you get under contract will close.

Bottom line is buy as big as you can reasonably buy once you are out of small multifamily. 

For example, this investor that I met recently said not to buy properties at tax auction for 100+ different reasons.