In my experience, using a hybrid model—combining traditional realtor showings with self-guided tours—has proven to be an effective strategy.

Here are additional comments:1) Buying out of state removes any local knowledge you have from assisting in your success, including knowing areas, people and costs. - We always recommend buying your first rental locally if possible and DIY managing to learn as much as possible before investing OOS.2) Lots of crooks and incompetents in the PMC world:( They both cost you money.- As already stated, you'll have a small portfolio.

Not only would you effectively be giving up your right to proceed by way of non-judicial foreclosure, a very messy judicial foreclosure sale might not succeed and even if it did, ability to pass title would thereafter likely be subject to borrower's statutory redemption rights.

This is effectively legislation to open up the market to new prospects. 

About the same as if you rent it, less costs.

Even if I were found guilty, the cost would be in the thousands, not in the millions.

The city is among a number of nodes for Tesla suppliers popping up throughout the Austin metro as a result of the so-called "Tesla effect" — which is shorthand for the trend of electric vehicle suppliers flocking to the region in response to Tesla's mammoth presence in eastern Travis County, where it has a gigafactory and headquarters.

If you buy for $110k you can finance $88k if you come out of pocket for the $22k down payment plus closing costs. 

If operating costs increase, then customers/tenants will eat the costs in tight markets.

I realize that there are variables from market to market and property to property that could make VRBO more effective for a given property, but my understanding is that in general Airbnb bookings get out to such a dominant start in regard to percentage of the bookings, that VRBO and other lesser OTAs have trouble catching up.