My method has always been to call every listing that hit 90 days on market in areas that I want to buy.

I mean I highly doubt( but sure there will be other who say otherwise just because) you will find a very good investment property listed on MLS or other publically available service.On a side note if I did have aprroximatley 400k equity in two of my homes could I use any of that to invest in another property?

Deals he claimed to have "closed" were not his firm's deals, despite being listed on Next Level Equity's Portfolio page and Justin creating and posting graphics with Next Level Equity's logo the word "CLOSED" and pictures of other people's real estate.

Two groups that I will consider investing with again are Colony Hills Capital for multi family and FNRP, which specializes in grocery and big box store anchored retail spaces.  

I see a lot of comments suggesting Ohio, can you guys list recommended neighborhood! 

Are their listings detailed with good-quality photos?

What I did get, was on a marketing email list that sells their other virtual products.

I want to be able to find potential markets/listings nationally based on the return. 

.#10 CONTRACT - make sure what you are doing STR is listed in the contract - typically in the addendum section.   

Your Schedule C at the top will typically list both of you since you are filing a joint return.