If you are serious about investing in other markets, I would absolutely plan a couple of trips that coincide with local meetups/REIA events for each market. 

One day your STR may be a used by a family for a vacation, the next day by a guys gold trip. 

At the same time, Erlich (who rents the rooms in his home to Jared and the other characters trying to build the fictional tech company Pied Piper) is demanding one of his tenants and soon-to-be-supervillain Jian Yang leave his house (video contains NSFW language) and unfortunately lets Jared’s situation slip.

I think you'd need to work with a local attorney and CPA to make sure you're not tripping over any wires accidentally (to mix a metaphor). 

Probably, I will make a trip sometime this year and personally, survey these areas myself.

Converting apartment buildings  (made up of 300-600 sq ft units) that have lots of character and close to downtown to condos was very popular in the boom times (pre 2008). 

FPE Stab-Lok breakers (red strip across the front, often says Stab-Lok somewhere on the panel) have a very high chance of not tripping when shorted or overloaded. 

@Jay Hinrichs That would be a fun trip!"

This includes performing the Comp inspections on the same trip as the Subject inspection.

I know most of us have heard horror stories and/or have personal experience about criminals and unsavory characters taking over vacant properties then claiming squatters rights to avert the authorities.