I hope you’ve been able to meet some great people and learn more about this beautiful business.

Best of luck there, it's a great town with good people.

What attracts people to Las Vegas?

. - For the right people (landlord who wants hands-free ownership but achieve higher than normal LTR rate, and arbitrager who has the skills and extra bandwidth, AND has confidence in their own ability), I think this kind of arbitrage model is a win-win.I'll be operating in the Triangle area. 

I will not be at the NY Real Estate Investors Expo but I'm sure that's a great one for meeting more people in your region!

There are people who have an entire business helping you set up and design a STR relatively quickly (3-7 days) depending on size of home and complexity but you are going to be paying a bit of a premium but you do save on the headache.

Transcribing transactions from bank statements, posting transactions to the correct accounts, and then manually creating an income statement, statement of owner's equity and a balance sheet is a fairly time consuming process and I have not been able to keep up with the book keeping between my regular work responsibilities.What accounting software do people recommend? 

@Mike Robb you would think with the money they charge people for very little benefit they could create an app.

There are still a ton of jobs and people continuing to move into that market. 

In-person networking and meetups are great for meeting people and connecting with others in the industry.