With the capital and experience to offer I've seen this work well as a joint venture.

I’m brainstorming ideas on how I can market myself to potential mentors in the STR game in order to gain experience.

Activities that deal with electrical or plumbing should be outsourced to avoid more expensive issues unless you have some prior experience with the simpler repairs in each.

Even though it's already decided to move forward with Smarter Contact, it'd be great to hear others' experiences using Smarter Contact and to see if disabling the opt-out msg has been... detrimental or better.

Would love to hear any advice or experiences!

What has your experience been investing with Networthy.us?

I bought it with my mentor and partner who has experience in renovation and hard money financing Congrats!

That is part of the problem with a lot of companies (I am not knocking insula as dont have all the info/facts just stating how the business works), they engage brokers to get them loans and the brokers collect a small fee. unfortunately many of the brokers may be similar to real estate wholesalers - have little to no experience. 

Has anyone had experience with Jerry's marketing program using Craigslist and VA's? 

At this time the primary goal is passive income and then scale within 5 years as I gain more experience and network.