At the time I looked, 20 or so years ago, the problem with smaller down towns is the proliferation of nearby strip malls, where the stores are surrounded by a large parking lots, and for laundromats, attract more customers as they can park easily, walk to adjacent stores for shopping, snacks, and browse newspaper and magazine racks, which explains why they do better, there's more customers.

Traveling medical professionals isn’t my ideal client type for the properties I have listed on Zillow.

Buying a building yourself to STR is ideal, but I also know a guy in Houston that has about 200 STR units.  

If you're looking to make short term use of the equity and have a private lender/investor who's willing to think outside of the box, you might be able to create a custom repo agreement. 

It's a beautiful custom home, one of the biggest and easily one of the nicest homes in a so-so neighborhood of Oakland, CA (i.e.

The question comes with various customized details but it's the same answer over-n-over again, to such a degree that answer-burn becomes a very real thing. 

That won't get you super far and property would not be in a ideal area.

They offer interest-only loans, don't charge for appraisals unless the deal actually closes, and have great customer service (they actually close on time unlike some of the lenders my clients have chosen against my advice over the years who ask for my time for underwriting the day before closing).

Ideally zoom but could attend face-to-face if dates allow.

@Griscel MacielIt's probably more ideal if you could sell all four properties at once to an investor for convenience, but that will be a smaller pool of potential buyers.