For your question, as far as I understand, the city of Binghamton doesn't allow STRs, but a lot of people do them anyway.

I want to hire some of the people here next time I need rooms painted.

Since Zillow doesn’t allow live links in messages (even links to articles on their own site), it’s also challenging to direct people to my own website, where integrating a chatbot would be much simpler and more effective.

Hi, yes Ohio is a place where people from all over the world are investing in real estate.

Intelligent people learn from other people’s mistakes.

I've been doing rentals for close to 20 years and I just learned a new trick that some people probably already know about but it wasn't something I'd seen before.  

If so, that's your prime market to start in because you have a competitive advantage of boots on the ground you trust of personal knowledge.If I were you, and new, I would not do fixers, I would buy turnkey or rent-ready properties or you are going to have to trust a whole lot more people to do what you want to be done.

But MANY/maybe most people don’t know you need to spend that $10-15k on top of the solar.

There are plenty of markets, a lot of people choose the Midwest.

Ideally you'd be there too (or a manager if you had one) as that is best practice in my opinion, but being remote you just have to outsource everything to people you trust.