With all this said, to answer your question of how you'd value this for a sale, I'd get a STR specific broker that's able to market your property as a turnkey STR with data on the rents, figures, etc.

So now your scrambling, going onto forums trying to figure out how to get it all back to the Nirvana it was.

And if all houses have not been fully rehabbed (we do fulls on every buy), some expected number for capital expenses should be included in that (IE if you have 3 years left on your roof you need to be deducting $X from that figure, repeat ad nauseum for all major capex).

I want to start local to get my feet wet (figuratively lol). 

Now, you need to figure out how to find deals and pay for them.

Every adult can figure out how to contact you if they think you provided valuable information to them.

If you don't have that, figure out how you are going to get it so that you can move from 'reading about real estate' into 'doing real estate'.  

Trying to figure out whether is it worth transitioning my 2br 1ba 1100 sqft unit to midterm rental from long term rental in Renton WA?

But they can't figure out ElChapo and his crime family walking undisturbed over the border!

A little trick I like to do when helping people with figuring out this question is to think about what their perfect day looks like.