I encourage you to interview property managers to determine what their approach looks like when managing properties for an investor who does not reside in the market where the property is located. 

If you own this as a rental then there is not homestead exemption and you'll pay much higher tax rate than a resident/owner occupant in SC. 

We recently relocated from our primary residence to a rental property ourselves (we recently welcomed a baby, and our house no longer accommodated our evolving needs).

None of these communities will be changing to residential neighborhoods, although a couple do have residential 'sides' that full time residents live in and can not be rented short term.Two of the big communities that you will have some issues with self managing are Reunion and Margaritaville.

Avail sends this to the resident, collects rent and deposits it into our account.

. :)This is especially true if you rely on furnishedfinder.com as your primary lead source (which you shouldn't, but that's another post) as when you make that connection with a prospective resident, you are selling yourself as a landlord as much as you are the property as a place to live.

Quote from @Christopher Stevens: Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Try a resident turnover, if it doesn’t go so well then you can go back to the PM.

I have two: one is my primary residence that I also use as an STR, and the other is a leased rental property that I manage remotely.Since I'm out of town, I'm finding it challenging to manage things like finding a reliable handyman and getting help with staging.

., mix STR with personal use or convert it to a primary residence), depreciation recapture is not triggered immediately but will apply when the property is sold.