These are excellent strategies—thank you for sharing so openly and not holding back.

The city has an excel sheet listing each muni’s code.

Outbound marketing, a solid website with excellent SEO. 

Texas remains an exciting market, and you've got some excellent opportunities to diversify or even consolidate into a single high-quality asset.

You've become part of an excellent platform for networking and education!

An excellent multifamily trainer with much credibility in the market is @Gino Barbaro of Jake and Gino.

I'm also looking to get my hands on a good calculator for short term rentals since I'm terrible with Excel and only have a calculator for long term rentals that I know is missing sections that are specific to short term.Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated :) BiggerPockets has an Airbnb calculator, and I see that you're a pro member.Since you've read the STR book and done other education, you know HOW to pick a market lol.

The course came with PDF texts (not books) and a very lengthy excel sheet to memorize and tackle on my own.

If you’re referring to the “newbies” with $10k to their name that watch a video by Pace and get excited and pay for joining, go out with their last $5k and do a sub to with a “desperate” homeowner without revealing all the possible consequences (because they are unaware of the consequences through lack of experience and lack of knowledge and or choose not to inform the seller) then I agree, it’s probably going to turn out badly for all concerned.If on the other hand you’re referring to a seasoned investor with excellent credit, significant cash reserves, who wants to add a property to their portfolio without going through loan qualifying, and can pay enough to give the seller “walking away” money because of the low existing interest rates and or, and is dealing with a informed seller, then I find nothing wrong or negative about the transaction.  

I don't know any excellent neighborhood in America that genuinely likes renters in their neighborhoods.