Most are traveling professionals needing an alternative to a thousand dollar a week hotels.

I agree their insights into often undervalued markets is interesting but I also think that thousands of people look at the same data and these are often small markets and can't sustain hundreds of new STR's

That's a LOT of $ to go to AZ, TX, FL, literally anywhere. 

@Greg StrunakA good real estate accountant can save you thousands of dollars by leveraging entity selection and formation, tax deductions, cost segregations, bonus depreciation and tax planning.I recommend finding an accountant who specializes in real estate taxation, business taxation, financial planning and tax planning.You may want to consider working with your accountant remotely to expand your options.I would also recommend looking for a accountant willing to work with you throughout the year.

You can watch the meetings at this link: https://engage.buncombecounty.org/d1035 I haven't watched the videos myself.It's hard to predict where things will go now that we've lost thousands of housing units, many of which were in the most affordable bracket.

Just give an year or two, you will see big name companies with hundreds and thousands of listings flooding into the area.

As someone who has invested in literally everything you could possibly invest in…there is ALWAYS risk, and I did not feel like Tardis adequately explained worst case scenario.

Again, I am literally a beginner - no properties under my name, no portfolio (yet), still working a W2 job, just looking for DIRECTION and for someone to possibly help me in what step to go in next. 

I paid thousand of dollars to do tax planning and I got two meeting so far with not tax planning, just chatting.  

Translated from the French root, you are literally "killing" the principal balance (or, the payment is killing you - depends how you look at it).