As we have witnessed in the past, specifically the years of 2020-2022, when rates dropped, everyone jumps in to buy a house, which drives up competition, which in turn makes housing prices go WAY UP to the point that people OVERBID on properties.

Property is versatile posied pretty well for STR’s and long term hold I feel given the location.The investor group seems to be streamlining into new construction and flipping / selling from what I gather (lots of properties on market now and new construction projects in development, I think the selling agent mentioned they had 400+ SFH in portfolio currently they are trying to sell off and transition more so into new construction and large scale apartment complexes) and have own separate businesses in the HVAC / Roofing / flooring world etc.I think my take away here is that I need to get my hands on the previous inspection to see what came up and check it off.

If that's not what you're looking for, Carrot sounds like a better bet (I'm not familiar with that product, just from what people are saying).

Are people still satisfied with them? 

They did go through rigorous screening but I just got some not so good people.

I'm not a big fan of people paying for investing "coaching".

you have to NOT do what these people did.  

Generally most people you speak with are going to provide you a quote with their "standard" commission built in and anything less would be them taking a reduced commission to win your business. 

Towns like Morrison can change so quickly without people noticing.

Listen to the people who tell you to have ample liquidity.