If you are looking to work with a STR focused realtor that probably has the most STR sales in the area, is an STR investor himself, has a STR property management company and assists with staging if needed, and can give you a true pulse on the market, I recommend reaching out to @Josh Green.

It's true that you make more money in the long run with appreciation compared to cash flow.

And I guess if your always paying cash and can hold long term that might be true.. but you bring in all these payouts up front and debt behind it and that creates the risk.

For tenants, we want to create a stable and comforting home so we only work with owners who are willing to invest in the property and make a true home for the tenants.

There's another slew of agents saying to re-list in March due to seasonality while that point is both true and false the agents have zero problem with some forms of manipulation of the market.

This is true you could have.

That is not true, if you start too early and lack experience and then have a deal go bad, it can set you back 5 to 10 years.

Quote from @Jon Martin: Beautiful machine!

Though I appreciate the idea of finding online resources and studying them, I find that a curated, tried and true formula (if it works) is much more worth my time than spending time trying to find which resource works best and then spitballing the ideas until something sticks. 

If not, stop looking for up and coming, look for tried and true.