I’d rather they just pause distributions and pick back up once the “economic conditions” are sorted out.

The idea would be to pick up something in the 650k-800k with an FHA loan.

If you didn't pick a tool that quite obviously works because of a factor completely unrelated to the effectiveness of the product, my course can't help you, ..

I've learned over the years of being a landlord that I have to pick my battles.

The other two in my post I picked up from OOS investors who had the same property manager as I do.

That name can’t be used in those states if already used so pick something a little off.  

I would pick a major tourist destination where it wasn't saturated with STR's already.That would take some research but you could google top vacation destinations and find a place you would go on vacation.

that's important - a lot of folks want to pick a property on Zillow and buy it just to "do a deal." 

a lot of new investors pick the cheapest markets in the country regardless of how far away they are, and how much knowledge they have of them, and I think that's a huge mistake. 

Get yourself to a point where you can evaluate a few different groups, and be able to pick the one that suits you best for your first investment.