You get to learn and sometimes make mistakes with limited exposure. there’s great companies out there who’ll have your back as an employee every step of the way through the tough situations.

Just doing some groundwork as to what areas I should look at to buy and what are the different property management companies that I should look at.

David Columbus, Ohio is a strong market for short term rentals due to the growing hospital systems (new build with over 900 beds), The Ohio State University with over 50,000 students and the young professional population in the growing tech industry here with companies moving in such as Intel: https://www.dispatch.com/story...

I funny story...when my wife and I put in a pool a couple of years ago we decided to get a HELOC as I can't do my own HELOC here at my mortgage company. 

You didn't share company name?

Typically when you sell the title company requires forms to state if you are foreign or not, your ID, and they want to send 15% or 10% or (20% for long term) to the IRS at closing.

You can use a title company to transfer the ownership.

For Realtors, most MLS's also offer an assumable search (for those that are identified correctly) when noted investors can find this information on additional details at the bottom of real estate sites like Zillow and Realtor.com under 'Terms' usually it will say conventional, cash, assumable...Title companies can be helpful with verifying the original loan balance and original note date which is a good indicator of the sellers note rate and how much principal they've paid down based on an ordinary amortization schedule. 

The management company handles a lot on your behalf, besides overseeing the manager.

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.