Study up on legal issues, property management, market research, property analysis, and finance possibilities.Participate in online forums like BiggerPockets, attend meetups, join local investing clubs, and establish online and offline connections with other real estate investors.

Thanks folks here and off-line for encouraging me to organize something for the rest of the auction newbies like me. 

Yeah - I can send you his contact offline 

Would love to chat off line about this as the wife and I are doing whatever we can to connect in the JTree STR market.

Let's connect more offline :)

You asked for advice and because you got an answer from someone who did not fully understand your situation, you calling it nonsense. if you don't want any nonsense, then deal with selling your stuff offline so that no one can give you nonsense answers.

I am a software engineering manager, and I work fully offline, so no problems at all.

Here are a few ideas that perhaps might work at your budget in this area, and happy to chat offline anytime!

Would be interested to hear your experience. online/offline. 

I'm happy to discuss offline further if you want to connect.