Mostly because they have a lot of resorts and hotels that work to "lobby" the municipality together and keep Airbnbs to a minimum.

Use Zillow and rentometer.com to get data and analyze a few from your home to see what type if returns there are.If these meet your investment criteria then start looking in person.

At the end of the day, the purpose/use of the proceeds is for the borrower's personal home (i.e., personal, family, or household purposes), which puts this loan squarely in the consumer loan category.

I dont have a specific person I follow.

By deferring capital gains taxes, you keep more money in your investments, allowing them to grow without the immediate tax burden.

Keep up the great work. 

I have equally found that there is something magical about IN-PERSON MEETUPS...when I left my traditional W2 for a PropTech startup I led our grass-roots business development by going to every possible Chicago Meetup for about 2 YEARS STRAIGHT!

Quote from @Marc Shin: The only person that can possibly answer that is the seller.

Should I be looking at this as a goal to keep buying rental properties to build up my portfolio?

@James Carlson Agreed with your most of your points here - and personally, I'm okay with the idea that if you want to put an ADU on your property that you have to live in it first.