I recommend building your "core 4" (Real Estate Agent, Property Manager, Contractor, Lender) in your target market.

Best way to do it is to have a simultaneous closing...look for an investor friendly title company and a hard money lender that is used often in your market and explain what you would like to do and ask them to help you accomplish it...Everyone likes to feel like an expert, they would happy to show you how it is done.

Are there any tools/strategies to calculate a high appreciation market vs high cash flow market?   

But hey its money whether its a living is another matter For the future I am switching to the buy it off the market and put it on the MLS with a realtor method.

What do you think stagnant $/sf values alongside rising rental rates & absorption mean for the health of the market?

What market study have they done to confirm the net returns of 10-15%2.

So will more inventory hit the market in 2025, probably, but the key is, is it quality STR inventory hitting the market. 

Lots of off market deals. 20% rent increases in the last year.

So new kid that bought his system was offered a two hundred bucks MF that was normal appraised for 150k only lol… and expecting that market would just grow , the system is working in 2009 though same thing to what Greg Hugher did in other bankruptcy filing lol

There are better more experienced operators out there... don't be swayed by the Brandon Turner marketing machine like I was.