For the better part of two decades I've been involved in real estate in some capacity including but not limited to: mortgage & real estate broker, developer, project manager, STR owner/operator/manager, international investor and beyond. 

Yes, it's not far and yes Milwaukee is a little better market to invest, but overall the cost and in-efficlencies of operating remote are not worth the effort.

After operating the STR for the first year can we turn the STR into our primary residence for 2 years then sell and avoid capital gains tax and depreciation recapture instead of doing a 1031 exchange?

Then I would say that the main challenge for you will be finding trustworthy, experienced operators who are going to give you repeat business and who have a track record of successful project executions. 

I own, operate, and live in the state of my LLC but I have clients all over the country/world. 

Since I list some of my (very few - I only have 3 residential units and my commercial ones are all managed by others) units every 2-3 years, I forget how to do it, and even standard operating procedures change a lot at that frequency, rendering them much less useful.

In 2020, I added wholetails, novations, and double closes to my toolkit, which allowed us to consistently achieve higher profits and scale our operations effectively.

It draws heavily on the Port of Mobile, with executives there estimating that it will be bringing about 50,000 TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) of containers traffic now that it’s operational.

Included the rental of the machine, the cost of the operator, new sewer pipe and rigid styrofoam.

I have a kind of "secret empathy" for younger folks nowadays because they've been condition to be these impulsive, reactive hyper-drama organisms.