How many weekends do you want to drive up north to find, purchase, setup and maintain an STR?

What would be the best ways to familiarize myself with construction process, while still maintaining my W-2 job? 

Its all legal and now you only have to maintain a place for 5 groups. 1) you can get a heavy cash deposit down for the ownership. 2) they pay quarterly for expenses that funds the overhead. 3) everone has a share of profit when you or they decide to sell for a higher price.

If you spend time learning how to manage well, your income will increase, you'll save time, and you'll maintain your sanity with the courage to expand.

I have significant enough assets and capital that I can make a few loans while still maintaining a healthy stock portfolio to keep my money working for me. 

Our records show that your subscription is set to auto-renew, and no action is needed from you to maintain your listing tenure.

If not, you could always maintain 2 separate IRA accounts, one self-directed for private lending, and then another for your traditional investing.

Quote from @Chris Magistrado:The point he's making is that the agent must take responsibility for building and maintaining their business, and the Broker won't play much of a role.

STRs also avoid automatic classification as passive if rented for seven days or fewer per tenant.To maximize tax benefits, maintain detailed logs of all hours worked on activities like tenant communication, cleaning, maintenance, and marketing.

I understand that starting out, depending on how fast you want to build your portfolio, you could spend a lot of time at it.For those with established investment portfolios, how much time is required to maintain it?