They are going to keep rates elevated as long as they can get away with it, meaning as long as unemployment remains manageable and the housing market does not crash. 

Even with the elevated purchase prices, high insurance, and increasing interest rates, there's still room to cash flow. 

Just do your best to constantly elevate the game and provide a pampered experience for guests- which you are already doing.

Cabin in Wears Valley on the edge of the Smoky Mtn National Park at 2000ft elevation.  

I see this regularly and can connect you with a team that will review the elevation certificates for free.

Most of the major brokerages have property management arms: CBRE, Cushman Wakefield, Colliers.Beyond that: walk into any office building in the area you are looking to get started, and see whose name is on the sign, front door, elevator plaque.

Tampa area purchase prices are one of the 6 most elevated price points of 2020.

.)#2 Rezoning to Approved Plot Plan where you hire engineers to get plan approved by the city/town to have structures built on the land#3 bring utilities to the lot line ready to go (water, sewer, gas, electricity) if out of city you may have to build your own waste water plant or septic system for sewer and drill well for water#4 clearing trees, grading land to have soil elevation to be relatively flat#5 bringing all utilities to each individual lot (residential subdivision, mobile home park) #6 build roads Hypothetically speaking your $100k raw land could be worth $250k after its been approved by the town to have 10-15 mobile homes built on it or worth $350k after you cleared all the trees and grading and have all utilities at the lot line.. 

Instead of elevating my life style, I paid the equivalent of monthly rent as extra principal.

One of the most important steps you can take as either a startup landlord or seasoned one is to use a platform specific to property management as it will elevate your operation and save you tons of time.The good news is that nearly every software designed for landlords includes these features.