Couple of questions:1. 

A couple thoughts on your question:I tell our STR investors in Colorado that their main goal should be to set up the right way right out of the gate.

When you have turnover, come live in it for a couple of months.

I started getting into some Facebook groups couple of days ago, I'll definitely look into RE events, I know there are few that takes place in the city most of the weekends 

For example, I've had a couple of 3+ bedrooms sit for a longer period of time because they only had one parking space available (and no on-street options nearby).

So there are a couple of things to think about here:1.

I took a couple of weeks off from my former job to really focus and prepare for the exam. 

My experiences were a couple of years ago and I was originally told the appraisal had been assigned and the rate would be $780 but then later I was told that appraiser was cancelled and they'd found someone else who it was assigned it for $935.

The second company had a PM contract and due to other reasons we did not continue their services after a couple of months so tax stuff did not arise.

Call up a couple companies.