I do not want sales agents in my market to believe I am expecting a fee each time I purchase a property and go out of my way to make it known to the broker community that they will represent me and collect their fee if they bring me a deal.

Pulled this together for a RE Investor meet up on how "today's tech stack" is breaking down historical concerns of STRs being a time-suck for RE Investors when looking at either purchasing properties for STR deployment or evaluating assets for STR usage vs other strategies.

The areas you are looking in are a step below the most expensive so I have no doubt they are higher, but you are also looking at a small sample size when you only look at homes available for sale now.

You should be able to find a PM in your target market to help manage everything for you (I don't recommend managing from a distance...it can be a nightmare and your time is more valuable focusing on your sales business). 

With another we're 5 building for eventual sale. 

There are short sales in there everywhere, everything's for sale and anything under contract is usually $100k or more below what the seller paid for the property.

I found the home as a for sale by owner by owner and it had a four car garage in a great location with a large lot.

I have a background working with banks, hedge funds and large infrastructure developers, and have been told my sales and negotiation skills could be leveraged in real estate, particularly in wholesaling.

Therefore, transferring our jointly owned investment property into my SMLLC would not trigger a due-on-sale clause?

Tech for most part is just a deployment item not innovation, utilizing tech to automate and do, more efficiently, what was done in antiquated manners.