I'm new here, and am ready to start investing my time into learning the strategies to get my first rental in 3 months.

Flipping and short-term rentals are definitely exciting strategies to build momentum.

Quote from @Garrett Jennings: I wanted to check on the forums before I consider using this as a strategy.  

What strategies have worked best for marketing midterm rentals in secondary or smaller markets like Portsmouth?

Are you leaning toward a specific strategy like buy-and-holds, flips, or house hacking?

It’s a winning strategy…..  

I'm finishing renovations on a studio apartment (under another unit in a multi-family) in the next few days and am trying to decide on what strategy to use to rent it.

You should jump into the weeds as long as you have a few exit strategies, know the market, have a stable 9-5, and emergency savings.

The "big" firms like AA may get a lot of hype but they generally can't compete on the next level tax strategies (Family office type strategies) nor customer service as their employee turnover is quite high.  

There isn't a lot of strategy to just buying a new build.