You'll want to ask about their experience, read reviews, understand their availability, pricing, insurance / bonding, and how they safeguard their funds. 

I've read the qualifying criteria multiple times and have already notified my CPA who has done it multiple times for their clients previously.

Heck, I stopped reading halfway through and couldn't fully grasp what you were getting at. 

If you are self employed with no full time employees then you should consider a Solo 401k for your traditional funds and no UBIT on leveraged real estate. 

That does not require employment or job seasoning instead it uses the rents to qualify and you can take out up to 80% LTV cash.Use the cash to put down on the next 1-2 or more properties as long as the other properties are debt servicing themselves it opens up more opportuities to buy more future assets and increase your passice income.  

If you go back to work as self employed, there are some NonQM programs out there that can do a cash out refi after just 1 year of bank statements or P&L. 

The big pros are the strong job market (lots of major employers), good population growth, and still-reasonable entry prices.

Your tenants can only continue paying similar rents if they remain employed at similar wages.

Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich" written in 1937, is still a good read for it's basic ideas.

I am just starting out and have 1 STR.Would love hear the pros/cons that you took into consideration when deciding how you want to manage your STR.Self managing STR properties, from afar, while maintaining other employment, is only a possibility because of the new technology made available in the last 10 - 15 years.