There are many choices out there so take some time and check out other systems to see what works for you.

And I suppose the likelihood of us getting more STRs in the area is directly tied to how good/bad our experience with this one is!  

Mostly due to the fact my spouse and I agreed on her to have zero involvment in any sort of RE investing (and its our home) I think once you have a good 6-12 months of reserve cash (operating expenses for your own life saved as a back up incase things go bad) save enough liquidity to get the ball rolling on your first invesment.

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

I would then interview a few and make a choice as to what one to move forward with.

“Courses” are often hype pieces that promote all of the good and underreport the bad.

At the beginning, it may be difficult to get a more expensive property that will appreciate well and so your choice is go with the cheaper property and get cash flow until you can sell and upgrade, or wait for a really good deal which you may be waiting for quite a while and its possible that you will have spent so much time waiting that you could have purchased multiple cash flowing properties by the time you get a good appreciation deal that you can qualify for / refinance after the rehab. i know anyone can go out and get seller financing deals, HML, flip to build capital or whatever the case may be I am just saying sometimes those will be harder and could result in less deals overall. 

She's not in great health herself, but seems like she can still carry on a few more years if nothing bad happens.

I'm not an SME on immigration law, but I know that you can get burned pretty badly if you run afoul of OFAC and AML stuff. 

I find it hard to believe such a bad market could get worse, but only if you know why it’s doing so poorly compared to the rest of the country.