As Jonathan mentioned, seek out an agent (independent agents write with multiple insurance companies) who writes in both states and have them run the quotes.

Unless you absolutely love living in south FL, it's probably better to find a cheaper city like you mentioned and live there since you remotely anyway. 

If it's a passive activity, then you might want to wait to do the cost seg which creates the deprecation until you can take advantage of the loophole.

Maybe people don't want to mention the good ones in fear they will go work to someone else.

If your not going to own the property in the LLC (you mentioned you are just going to manage it) then you don't need the asset protection.

As an example I have been in the business for almost 15 years so the sites you mentioned I have a database of thousands of sites I have built up over the years with my network.Even within the larger NNN listing brokerages lot's of their properties never go to the main company website.

No skills in the trade department, which is why I mentioned it's really a difficult business to build.

Some of them also want you to wait a bit, usually 6 months to a year, after you bought and fixed up the property before they let you refinance with a high LTV.

@Jordan Smith what is the difference between the licensed PM and the other option you mentioned.

I don't want to wait until the 20th!