You will be confident to avoid major mistakes and use best practices, whether you hire this out or do it independently.

They could be traveling for work or for personal reasons (I actually rented a place off Airbnb in Billings, MT during football season when my son played football in college so I could be there for his games.)

., use the money made here to travel other places.There are too many potential problems that could arise that would be out of my control.That's just how I see it.

I think hospitals would like travelers to be on there way out. 

@Madhur Mehta,If you're going to sell (and 1031 exchange) into a new property, it makes sense in this market to be very confident in whatever you find as a new property.  

The reason we are interested in doing this in El Paso is even though I don't live there, I travel there 8-10 weeks a year for things related to our non-profit.

There are so many students  and traveling professionals.

First focus on what kind of tenants you are looking for (college, certain employer, traveling nurses......) 

I'm also a newbie and not confident in evaluating projects and borrowers, so would prefer to partner and diversify.I'm looking at debt funds at crowd funders like Fundrise, as well as business development (BDC) ETFs like Ares, Blue Owl, Golub.

Folks get over confident, think "what's the worst that can happen" and they often find out it's far worse than they could have imagined.