From all the podcasts and articles I’ve listened to and read I want to know for sure if my success is likely, or these are just one in a million stories that I wont get to see.

I read an article recently regarding how COVID has made city dwellers (eg.

This is a great forum with very knowledgeable members that will help to guide you in the right direction.If you haven’t checked it out already, the Bigger Pockets blog features links to their awesome podcast and many great articles: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/I really like the alerts feature that can quickly guide you to current topics that might interest you: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alerts

On a parallel note, I just read in the NY times recently an article stating/showing that each year from 2011-2020, someone in the media posted some headline regarding a pending crash or correction.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

This is one of my pet peeves: people are not comfortable buying real estate sight unseen but will put 50k into a company they know nothing about because a buddy told them about it or they read an article online. 

There's hundreds of videos and articles that can go way more in depth for both Deal Machine and PropStream then me trying to explain here on the forums.

I've done a decent amount of research into these markets but also spend a lot of my free time just reading every article I can find about the best vacation rental markets in the country and also reading through these forums to see what other people are saying.

I recently read an article about the future of the real estate market and further predictions for the same. 

Seller financing is really more about the seller than anything else (see this article I wrote on the BP blog about this: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...)