Personally if you are looking to grow in real estate going the traditional method/way of getting good properties under agreement with traditional financing will get you to where you want to go faster than trying to find all the needles in a haystack.

My tenant had an issue with the 1-year old dryer working.

We have the opposite problem up north in Cleveland.

I wanted to stay in the same county that I grew up in.

This will help attract more business to the state, keep it coming! 

I have just been over here flipping houses with no real contact with other investors. 

Seems like you just totally ignore my post.

If not I would recommend looking up other AirBnB owners in the Covington area and simply asking them who they use. 

you are in the right place for learning . every day read as much as you can and soak up all the invaluable knowledge here on these posts .

I'm in the Tampa area and mainly had mine in the Pinellas County area.