Looked into services like TheHost and others that offer a “free store” but many are basically a pretty Wordpress site with a 30% sale commission. 

Booking Website BuildersHosty is most recommended by homeownersWix and WordPress are good if you have a bit more experience or tech know-howNotable Mentions: LiveRez, Lodgify, Lodgix, Wix, GuestyContent Creation Canva is great to make a consistent post template or text overlay with property website. 

Does anyone know of a good WordPress plugin that can be used to collect rent online?

It might be worth picking up 5 acres zoned residential with density of at least 20 units per acres while it's still cheap if you can sit on the property for a while and look at developing it in 5-10 years.  5 million is exaggerated for columbus and inaccurate I've never heard that ever. the mid ohio regional planning commission is the one who releases these figures and the current tragectory is 3.15 million far off from 5 million. here you go:https://www.morpc.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/P...as far as density goes I agree with you and affordable housing but recent affordable housing trends have density as high as 50 units an acre.

Check these out tooBooking Website BuildersHosty is most recommended by homeownersWix and WordPress are good if you have a bit more experience or tech know-howNotable Mentions: LiveRez, Lodgify, Lodgix, Wix, GuestyContent Creation Canva is great to make a consistent post template or text overlay with property website.

Our strategy will be to use direct mail and also start a Word Press site to generate leads.  

You can go with that or create your own website with WordPress if you want to save some money. 

Platforms like WordPress for blogs, Mailchimp for newsletters, and YouTube for video content are excellent.

As far as building a site -- I strongly recommend using a database like Wordpress or Drupal (I recommend Wordpress).

I have run in to this issue with other low code type stuff before (wordpress!).