I'm just getting started out in this area and would appreciate any suggestions or advice.

This is an important consideration in most LL decisions, LTR or STR.

Then you will have some kind of direction to follow and can narrow it down from there.Hope this helps a bit. 

welcome @Cam Caraher and congrats on joining BP, this place is the start for many, sure was for me longer ago than I care to admit.I'm not personally in your market, although was born in dorchester and grew up in NH, but this is a great place to meet locals.If you have not already a great starting point is the Meetups posted here, just search for your area and see if any meetups are happening. 

Basically, I was lied to but of course this all happened over a phone call. 

I Have an update on this.

Every voicemail in LMH seems to detail when this time is however!).

Since I have done both of these things wrong and right in my past, I can tell you keeping the client happy to a certain extent is a lot more cheaperWe have found that setting the proper expectations right up front of what we will and will not do seems to help solve going down this never ending rabbit trail sometimes.

Jumping into this thread!  

There are pluses and minuses to this.