Also any tips for automating this as much as possible and how to protect the property financially and property management would be appreciated.I ALMOST understand the rental arbitrage strategy if building a company scaling with say 30 + units and looking for high short term cash flow.  

You don't want them to just be financially qualified but you failed to investigate how they treated their past two apartments. 

keep it to 1 page is my best advice and simple. have financial returns broken out beforehand 

The agents are charged for this service no matter what so it's difficult for the agent to service from a time and financial perspective.

Lots of normal, blue collar folks are getting financial freedom from STR and yet the committee is tone deaf to their stories.

That being said, with interest rates being higher now, I may not be able to find a turnkey property that makes financial sense.  

While we here on BiggerPockets certainly have financial goals in mind, local populations all over the world have an opposite and opposing one. 

So, the value is that an investor has zero financial risk on the front end and spends zero time creating the opportunity.  

It wasn't fun living an hour and a half from work and play, but absolutely worth it.If one is starting with relatively low living expenses, cash flow can be extremely powerful towards reaching financial freedom.

Working on my financial fundamentals, namely saving enough free capital to invest.