It would be nice to make some connections on here and hopefully help each other build our businesses.

Do your job as required.

Perhaps a reason why they still have a day job.

My apologies in advance to all those responsible and responsive CRE brokers who are good at their job.

Found another deal at 52 cents on the dollar, just needed a paint job, guess what?

It is a much more affordable market to get into, yet we are seeing great appreciation returns, with a stable job market to include education, solar, energy, manufacturing and military presence requiring housing for all.

are either you or your spouse in a job that has a 401K with a match, and if so, are you maxing it out?

If people are looking to move there full time for a new job, I'm assuming STR is out and people would need a MTR while they're trying to find their forever home or a LTR if they weren't looking to buy.

As far as a general STR strategy, a nice 3x2 house within an hour of a major attraction is not too much to manage and can drive a nice nightly rate if you go with high end design. 

My first RE job out of college was working for a boutique investment firm that specialized in packaging deals for out of state investors because deals in their hometown just couldn’t cash flow.