Often, other investors are willing to share tips or even collaborate on data acquisition.• Hybrid Approaches:Some teams combine purchased lists with public records to cross-reference and validate information, which can improve call success rates.I’ve found that a bit of trial and error is often necessary to identify the right mix for your market and team size.

If so do you have any suggestions or tips for best practices to do this?

A couple tips--Always best to house hack small multis when you are moving around from base to base. 

Bonus Tip: If this quadruplex is out of state, I’d highly recommend building a reliable local team (cleaners, handymen, etc.) and maybe consider hiring a co-host or VA to help with day-to-day tasks, especially if you scale up. 

As for the rest of it, you can find a lot of useful tips on past forum posts along with podcasts and youtube material on the topic (BP and other RE sources).We've self managed STRs for a few years.

Any tips, strategies, or insights would be greatly appreciated!

I actually decided against investing in Cumberland for the time-being so don't have any tips/advice regarding PMs and such out that way

If R5 is an option, then I might have some areas I could look into.All of this leads to my two questions:1. any tips/advice on how to best transition between my current primary residence and a new one?

Any tips you could give me on this in terms of viability?

@Roger D Jones Good tip, thank you.