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When creating a list, you are essentially filtering homeowners based on who might seem most likely to sell.You can check your local county records site for properties with delinquent taxes, probate cases, or foreclosure filings

We tore down our garage, expanded the footprint, and rebuilt.

Our general system is run the initial payout reports, verify all reservations from our reservations sheet, verify owner charges, fix any issues, issue final payout to owners.We only use 1 trust account and 1 operating account, with the same bank. 

Good stuff, although in our experience, most investors going OOS, don't do enough market research.We really push understanding the property Classes of the market, so someone doesn't put "lipstick" on a Class C or D and sell it to an OOS investor as Class A or B!

I'm looking to branch out our investing portfolio while also being able to move away from the W2 income, but I'm not sure if we should stick to STRs, or move into LTRs or other.

There are books available on this site about property management and also a good book you might want to read is Property management for dummies.In Florida a big alligator on Real estate can be the insurance costs, and roof replacements.So talking to an insurance person about these things, which may have different costs in different cities, would be an intelligent thing to do.You will need a lender to make the loan.

My wife and I are passionate about real estate and have secured our first investment property this year of 2024 on Hawaii island.

I can not find on this site where to post listings. 

They have also outsourced their TAX SERVICES and despite my constant request to expedite my tax filing so that we can apply for a CRITICAL BUSINESS LOAN TO EXPAND OUR BUSINESS, THEY SAT ON OUR TAX and BOOKEEPING files for 7 months.