Create a team of skilled agents, lenders, attorneys, and contractors, network with local communities, and evaluate transactions with resources such as Zillow and Redfin.

Quote from @Adam Czachor: If you're going to be an absentee landlord, I would start by looking for highly skilled property managers that can handle whatever you purchase.

I'm thinking of starting a property management company as I have a lot of skills I can leverage for this type of business.

The thing to understand about being an agent, that took me a little while to figure out, it’s a marketing gig, your actual skills as an agent are mostly irrelevant, most buyers won’t understand or care if they got a good deal or a bad one within reason.

Unless you have strong coding and spreadsheet skills (and lot's of time) I recommend following J Scott's advice. 

Education does not need to be connected to your work per se, but rather improve your current work skills (or be required as part of your job with CEs for attorneys, accountants, etc.).I don't think it was missing. 

I know networking is a skill I'll need to Mmaster.

With my management skills, furnishings, and location, It leans to be in the more profitable side than I presume STRs in places that don't have major attractions immediately nearby. 

I don’t have any specific issue to deal with at this time, but I want to get to know the attorney and their experience and skill set.

If you have skills that can save you money, by all means invest the time.other value was by creating a 5th room in the unit.