For an OOS investor, I would recommend looking at Kansas City as one of my CFO clients also manages 100+ doors for OOS investors and knows the market very well.

@Chris Faye i'd like to hear more as well 

I would look into assets that are non-correlated to the stock market or real estate, as well as tax advantaged assets to help shelter your income. 

STRs need to be viewed from a 365 day lens so if the numbers work well then, you still can be successful.

I have a call out to my accountant as well. :)

My accountant was lazy, not well informed and provided bad advice.

Those are spray and pray techniques that don't fit with sellers right now because sellers/owners are sitting on a very low rate and don't want to move to go up 4-5 points on their rate.Listings aren't a start now thing as well.

It's a good time to review markets, but living in China there are a lot of other closer, international markets that could be options as well.

It was a personal referral, received a credit at closing for renovations as well How did you finance this deal?

We host RE meet-ups as well.