Austin has been a high growth city and likely is six to 12 months ahead in the business cycle as many smaller cities.Of those Three, San Antonio provides you the same legal backdrop (Tx) and also geographical access (same day drive) and accelerating immigrant population growth (GDP growth requires much more immigration both red/blue agree on this in private)

Not always, they go pretty deep on these.

Evan is right, I have been deep diving and analysing the STR market for a while now and you quickly come to realize that a decent home and location for LTR doesn't at all equate to a successful or profitable STR. 

Marlboro Drive, Chandler, AZ 85224.

Further, my understanding is that it is possible to create a multi member LLC with yourself and a corporation as members, where you're the corporate official(s) - but we're getting fairly deep into the weeds here.Note that I'm just a lowly landlord who has attended seminars and implemented some of what was taught.

Instead of getting caught up on the numbers figure out an area , see if its feasible, drive to it and look at the area, then see if your willing to take the jump to actually move to that location. 

I think contractors are everywhere, literally drive around or do a google or facebook search and vet them.

As someone who has always had a deep passion for real estate, I believe that the heart of every home is the kitchen.

You must spend time researching properties and I drive by every property that I am willing to bid on.

You would have to at least be ready to do some renovations or search really wide and deep.