However we are still on the fence.Just curious to hear how other STR owners are doing and what strategies they are using to stay afloat.

I've been having this conversation lately with a lot of the owners I work with as well as those who self-manage.

On the sale side of the equation I rely on 3rd party sales agents for my housing geared towards owner occupants.

So we're now waiting on a $1.2M triplex in Atlanta that's being prepared for market or a commercial 7 units building that the owner decided to upgrade with 2 leases expiring before selling.

My only hurdle is the fact that I don't know the Real Estate Investing industry that well, so I don't know where or how to find the right documents for my wholesaling transactions.I've began generating pre-foreclosure leads, which I am able to filter out just ones with high equity, owner occupied, and no auction date, yet.

It was not easy, since without having my property under contract I had trouble getting a property owner to sign a sales agreement with me.

And it can be done there locally.When I was active in Jackson there was my company and another called SIF one of the owners was married to a local doctor if I recall. 

As a property manager handling short term rentals, we would have the owner replace but long term rentals like the one I'm staying in, it requires the tenant to replace the filters.

I know from the a deed recorded last month that FreddieMac got house from foreclosed former owner for 180k.

In this case the current financials on the property aren't great(rents well below market value and the owners family living in several of the suites) so the lenders will likely not provide the funding based on poor NOI.