I am married to a successful interior designer who serves luxury clients but can work with me to make rental properties look great for half the cost with her knowledge of what makes the most impact.

The 232 seems a little low for a popular place like Blue Ridge but not crazy.

The management LLC does literally all management activities-- hire PMs, hires contractors for renovations, hires the legal experts for other stuff, buys STR furniture, hires interior designers for STRs, hires pest control, etc.

We use Streamline which is a legacy provider but it is cumbersome and designed for larger scale PM operations (trust accounting, owner portals, etc etc).Just a few integrations we use: Lynx (locks), BookingPal (channel manager), EZCare (HK/Maint Ops), RevMax (Pricing) - There are more, thats off the top of my head. 

Contrary to popular belief, this is not set because I believe it will give me a higher return.

If so you can look into Cash Re-Fi (not as popular these days with high rates) OR look into Home Equity Loan / Home Equity Line of Credit.

Purchase price: $155,400 Cash invested: $40,000 Property is located in Cuyler-Brownsville an historic district within walking distance of popular Metropolitan District of Savannah GA.I purchased the property to get started in the real estate space, however I value the walkability of the property, its proximity to parks and nightlife.Although the area is a rated roughly as a “C class” neighborhood.

You need to drill down deeper, R-2 is single family as well as R-3 and R-4, they are multi family in the sense of being more than one unit, R-1, but the federal designation does not change until there are 5 units or more.

I know this area is very popular and some say over-saturated (I think thats any popular tourist area these days).

Some cities have embraced STRs, while others have stringent regulations or outright bans.San Diego, specifically neighborhoods like Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, and La Jolla, have been popular for STRs.