If this is an STR, DSCR lenders will require that you have booked the property on an STR site for 12 months or have 12 months of prior experience with a different property.

If anyone has recommendations for free resources—whether it’s books, websites, videos, or anything else that could help me sharpen my skills—I’d really appreciate it.

So, essentially it takes out a lot of the guessing and constantly looking at your competition to get you more bookings.

It is very dependent on your place, location, and target guest, but I have built my properties' social following to almost 50,000 followers, with 65% direct bookings from that.

In fact, I've made up a few of my own that aren't in the book.

Definitely should check out J Scott's book on estimating rehab costs: https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/the-book-on-estimat...I wrote a long article a while back on due diligence that would also be worth reading (well, at least I think it is): https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/due-diligence-ultimate-gu...

About 3 years ago my freshman year of high school I was told if I was to house hack after high school I could own 5 properties in 10 year's.I took that to heart and have been saving money since then reading books and listening to podcasts about finance, business and real estate.

I help my clients manage their books as well.I was able to help use Buildium for all accounting records. 

I am checking out a couple of books to read and I have the time available to study and learn. 

check out the book in the BiggerPockets bookstore called "Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth" for the ultimate self-managing guide.