Find an investor friendly realtor in your market that can email you listings that match your buy box. 5.

Some areas/neighborhoods are more STR friendly than others. 

I live over in Gadsden, frequently travel Birmingham, and dying to know what you see in Birmingham.

Sounds like your friends didn’t do their due diligence...

One of my friends uses comped quarterly cleaning as their inspection day and trains the cleaners to take photos and videos of everything.

Choosing markets with direct flight access simplifies logistics.After setup, frequent visits are unnecessary if you have a reliable team and good communication.

Every system you try will have flaws, or you may salivate over a feature that appears in other software.Some familiar names are mentioned frequently: Stessa, Apartments.com, RentRedi, TenantCloud, Innago, RentManager, Avail, Rentec Direct, Doorloop, etc.I recommend conducting thorough research on each app online to understand their offerings, pricing, etc.

I ultimately decided to look out of state where the price points were more affordable and the numbers made sense + landlord laws are more friendly. 

Don’t talk with your spouse unless they want to, not your friends or coworkers, not your family.

Surprised I didn't see ya there my friend....