Knowing which subs go deer hunting , fishing , will or wont work weekends , which ones are tied up on longer jobs , etc .

What helped me tremendously in the beginning was to sit an open house every weekend.  

  - Outside of that, I'd encourage you to visit cities you are considering investing, and get on the ground even for a weekend. 

There are often weekends or holidays that finding even a basic motel for the night in some areas is nearly impossible (especially if you have pets!) 

Check out Brian's book The Hands-off Investor on sale THIS WEEKEND for Black Friday.

In order to get there it would be good if you could keep feeding cashflow proceeds back into acquisitions, on top of your continued W2.Speaking from experience, you can manage probably 30-50 units yourself nights and weekends before you really need to hire someone.

I did this last weekend.

Check out Zeona's book 30-Day Stay on sale THIS WEEKEND for Black Friday.

How many weekends do you want to drive up north to find, purchase, setup and maintain an STR?

To me that is requires major compliments, and the review I posted is not appropriate.They really are going above and beyond in this circumstance and its not fair to them to keep this post online just because I wasn't able to reach them and discuss this over the weekend right after new years.PLEASE reconsider taking the post down.