So again little effect.However, office started tanking even before interest rates began to hike super-quickly (due to covid and then changes to the way we work).

We thought snapping receipt + sending invoice email directly to QBO was super attractive.However, we are finding QBO to be also cumbersome and pricey1) Personal credit card - If I mistakenly use personal CC, I have to manually create an entry (this happens quite often). 2) Pricey - $99/month is now really adding up.WE thought it would be a great early learning and investment to adopt QBO now as we scale (hopefully to MTR and LTR).

Getting into multi family in PHX is a bit of a high barrier to entry and the number of options you'd have are super low. 

In general, my overall feeling was that Doorvest is good if you're super busy and don't have time to really dig into real estate.

Super cool!

it sounds like you're really eager to deploy a bunch of capital into supposedly cheaper markets, but you're not going to cash flow $500 on a random single family anywhere unless you are self-managing and super hands-on and prepared to deal with rough turnovers.  

Finally, you post that your market is super hot for buyers, but then you don't mention what market you are referring to. 

Super helpful!

Then creative financing will super charge the deal.

Since I am assuming you aren't a super host and don't have any or many reviews yet, you will want to underprice your competition to get some traffic and then you can tweak prices from there.