STRs continue to be a scapegoat for a lot of the housing affordability issues in Denver, Colorado Springs and elsewhere in the state, so it wouldn't surprise me if someone brought it up again. 

Did you have someone or something backing you up?

You can learn from someone one step ahead of you and then do business together.I'm sure there are plenty of mentors you could pay substantial money to to gain knowledge and know how but i doubt it could replace actual relationships that are pertinent to your market and current business.

As you can see from our teams response on this thread, we are VERY engaged with our company and clients EVERY client matters, so you can understand when someone speaks poorly of our shop, especially when incorrect, they take it pretty personally.Second, you mentioned "a lot of people" who are not happy with our service.

I plan on managing these myself until I get to a threshold that makes sense to pay someone on my Realty Team to take over property management.Yes, he is willing to do 6% for 10 years with 50% down.

I'd rely on her to handle much of the day-to-day management.Given this, we're leaning toward a single-family home where we can comfortably rent a room to someone we trust.

Just my 2 cents from someone that has both great and not so great properties in the area.

In order to do this you need to have deal flow and you need to know 1) How to recognize a good, profitable deal, 2) How to put together funds quickly to buy the deal before someone else does and in such a way where you are protected and the deal is protected, 3) How to run the project so that you follow the budget and don't overspend or overbuild, 4) How to attract an end buyer or a renter and which documents to use to protect yourself and the buyer, 5) If you are going to keep the property then you need to know how to set up the property from the start to best help you in the refinance later, and 6) You need to know how you are planning on managing the property from the beginning in order to make sure it will be profitable at the end.

Hmmm, teaming up with someone you don't know.

I'm not the strongest in knowing the Queen Creek market from an agent standpoint, but I have someone that I can recommend to you.