Absentee Owners have been popular for a long time, and are apparently still somewhat effective (people are still mailing to them) but they are getting multiple offers to buy their home.

Cut that in half (at least), find the most popular episodes that are applicable to your point in REI, spend the remainder of that time building the basics of your investment business. 

AirBnB has become really popular, and some local governments have been taking notice (of course they want a piece of the pie). 

The feedback should be valuable and you might run into somebody who wants to sell in a few months or years.Spending problem (a man who earns $300,000 a year and lives paycheck to paycheck has a spending problem, a man who makes auto-body pay and lives paycheck to paycheck is working/poor and needs to work on a workable weekly budget or get a second job).Also, here's a very popular autobody repair channel out of Texas by a guy who owns his own shop you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/user/swrnc/videosGood Luck!

We know the real game only begins now (aka, we need to get it tenanted asap).Would anyone please recommend some good or popular website (other than Craigslist or Kijiji) for rental advertisement (free or paid) to attract the good and serious tenants?

In the absence of licensing requirements, the occupation is popular with tradesmen who may have difficulty finding gainful employment due to a criminal record and/or drug addiction.Liz hails from Laconia that is only a few miles from Gilford.

I've started an account with cozy.co, which seems popular and has at least some of the use cases I'm looking for, but any other nice plays out there?

Read the popular “2 Dads” book and got the spark.

It seems pretty similar to the popular DealMachine but less expensive.

Happy to help you or anyone else out regarding popular towns for investment properties.