One of our houses ended up in the Texas Farm and Home magazine. 

Take the prior checklist template and drop it in 1A and we will build a cost model from it.Go out on the web and find a STR property for sale similar to what you are thinking. 

It's one of the reasons I ask this question because the Auto Title loan companies (at least the ones on the web) say that they don't check your credit.

I’m not sure they need a web site but they need to know what they are doing.

Yes, I've read some web reports about the Raleigh city council vacillating over what rules to impose on airbnb and STR in general.https://www.newsobserver.com/n...It seems they've not been enforcing any of their decisions, as a quick scan at airbnb's site shows lots of whole house / apartment rentals in the metro area.Even so, we'll keep our options open and may need to expand our search outside of the Raleigh city limits.

I figured, the next best thing would be to reach out to professionals over the web.

BUT... that is where back-links still are needed.The more web-presence, the more google will think you are legitimate, the better chances you have to rank high.This is why Google content is king... when you already are ranking #1.

To seek more information on STR licensing and guidelines, contact your local planning commission OR you can save yourself some time and effort by going to your local government's web portal.   

I'm in the process of having my own public web domain built -- www.setterrealty.com for pretty much the very things you are doing.  

They receive a link that they can click on and it loads a web-page that is automatically updated with information you specify.