At the same time get out to REI meet ups and get your name and face out there. 

Self-managing the STR has some great tax benefits if you meet IRS requirements.  

My team and I are traveling next week to meet contractors; look at land for hotel development on the beach side. 

The property has to meet very minimal requirements to be allowed to be rezoned (section C). 

They said there is no restriction as long as they don't meet their cap and at the time there was no waitlist and no cap for renting, so I wasn't worried.

My wife and I create Real Estate Meet-ups wherever we live (lived in many places due to being in the Navy for 21 years) and I believe that these groups help change that potential energy of potential investors into kinetic energy and make kinetic investors.

My last one i requested a call so i could meet him at the site.  

Most meet-ups in Columbus usually take place in the warmer months.

I manage the property and the tenants, pay the owner of the property a rent that meets their mortgage plus a little profit, charge fair market rent from the tenants I sublet to, and exercise an option to buy the property after a predefined term and at a predefined price.This way tired landlords don't have to manage their property anymore, and I start investing with little to no money.

There is an investor meeting there called RIG and I suggest going to it.. you could meet some of the locals..