Whoever gives me the most business and has an excellent close record will first be presented with off-market opportunities. 

This will help attract more business to the state, keep it coming! 

I have experience with this business model. 

My business partner has two STRs adjacent to ours that has several 1-bed units that rent very well during the week. 

Are in any business affiliation with Dustin Ruhl? 

And technology aside, this business hasn't changed much in the last 20 years.

Quote from @Gregory Wilson: A few things there, Brendan.First, an LLC with you as a member and your (wife, son, pal, etc.) partner as a 1% member will file a Form 1065 which is about one tenth as likely to be audited by the IRS as a Form 1040 with a Schedule E rental activity (which I presume you will attempt to show is an active business).Second, you want an LLC because when your local Alabama handyman drives his girlfriend's uninsured truck into a van load of U of A medical school interns on I-22 when he goes  to get some shingles for your roof, on your business, you don't lose everything you have or ever will have to an uninsured claim. 

Although most of my stays are <7 days, I've had a few longer stays (business travelers and a family that was going through a full home remodel).

I personally used business credit cards to BRRRR a deal—no money came out of my pocket.

The other way I fund deals with none of my own money is using a private lender that I have years of experience and relationship with and/or using HELOC and other business lines of credit.