Motivated sellers and distressed properties are more likely to surface.Creative Financing: Higher interest rates are opening doors to strategies like seller financing or subject-to deals, where you can secure more favorable terms directly from sellers.Shift in Buyer Preferences: With work-from-home trends still influencing housing demand, suburban and secondary markets are seeing strong growth.

I can't just put the LLC's income directly into my joint personal tax return, right?

You'll learn what contractors are good at such repairs, and eventually people will start bringing you "problem properties" with that issue.Another related idea: contact a good local realtor and ask them if they know of any on or off market properties that would be a hard sell for most buyers. 

Your property manager should be supplying monthly reports and year end PnL reports that you give directly to your CPA. 

They also have been directed by someone high in his organization to attack other groups to  not just disrupt but to try and get people to ask for refunds.Many of these are "infuencer" types and not even wannabe or actual real estate investors. 

Finding good STR's can be a niche market, so it's a good idea to find an agent that is familiar with STR so they can point you in the right direction for zoning, good markets, etc. 

Directly after signing up I called them to make certain I had not signed up for any "subscriptions" or "programs" and was assured I was not.

That said, I am still on VRBO, GVR, BDC and direct.  

I cold call and go direct to the seller and I have a 3 person team that pretty much just calls all day long for me.

Garrett,I am currently only on Airbnb and have a direct booking link through Hospitable/ Google Vacation Rentals.