A contact of mine has been thriving with STR investments in suburban Chicago, targeting guests visiting for conferences.

House HackAttend as many REI meetups as you can to grow your network of investors for referrals, help through challenges you may incur but don't have experience with, and learn from proven guest speakersNetworking app like blinq to compile all of your contacts for REI in one area with phone and emailbegin conversations with local credit unions exploring what type of loan products they offer

Be sure you consult your agreements with them as well to determine if there is some other action you are responsible for.You may also want to contact your insurance to find out if and when they may step in and do something.

If you are willing to do the work, the landlord can often be the first point of contact with housing assistance.

Marc Mosseau was the leader at this Oklahoma City funding tour I went to and said contact me with my first deal.

Please give me a call, shoot me a text/email with my contact info below so we can set up a time to connect.

For those that have yet to do this, it takes less than 10 minutes if you are a single member llc - just make sure to have a copy of some sort of identification. we did all of ours .. and our attorney contacted us as well and let us know to get them done or he would do them for us. 

. :)Anyway, I like your strategy of driving and looking for houses in need of repair and sending handwritten letters and contacting rentals for the reasons you gave.

Does that mean the actual manager or a local contact.

I contacted a property management company and they expect it would rent between $2,000 - $2,100.