@Nick ConnorsIt’s great that you’re using your savings to invest early, and Columbus could be a solid market given your familiarity.

What strategies have worked best for marketing midterm rentals in secondary or smaller markets like Portsmouth?

There is no one size fits all answer for this question, market to market, and property to property are all different. 

Every where you turn there are STRs going up on the market fully furnished because they couldn't pay the mortgage and bills with the rental income. 

Are they at market rent, or locked into below-market rates?

@Danielle Levy a lot of questions regarding your accusations:1) What are the average Days On Market (DOM) for rentals in this "hot" market?

Lots of opportunity to find mismanaged multis as well where the older mom and pop landlord has rents way below market and can come in and increase NOI just by getting units up to market rent and maybe doing some cosmetic rehabs as tenants move out.Value add multi is what I prefer and think works best here but that's with me being here boots on the ground and being more active with it.

We bought a 55-unit last year in the same market, a market we've been investing in for seven years.How we found itOur property manager brought us this opportunity (and the three previous as well).

Market forces are pushing and pulling but not a source of anything breaking.

So they used the actual rented data of these companies to compare what rentals should go for in your market.