I would be extremely cautious of anything that is less than a year old on the internet.

Through some internet searches it appears that the city governments of Southern Pines/Pinehurst are trying to slow the short term rental market in the area.

What's would be your personal way of doing a broad stroke view of your performance and establishing a quick benchmark?

Here are some numbers based on the info I could find.Gross annual Income- $180,000(rents,cleaning fees,occupancy tax and fees)Costs: Cleaning fees-$22,500Occupancy tax-$6,500Property tax-$4,500utilities-$13,000Cable/internet-$5,000Insurance-$2,000Maintenance-$3,000HOA-$7,500Debt service-$48,500Total Net Income- $67,500Sorry for all of the numbers, not sure if I'm missing anything or questions I should be asking.

There is so much information out there (in the forms of books, podcasts, youtube, internet in general) so I wasn't sure if anyone could recommend somewhere online that had it all localized in one spot.

I would not paint with broad strokes that smaller is better than larger lenders - it really depends on your location and the project. 

I think you'll see more macro effects of workers relocating to fast internet, cheaper COL states.

Just to highlight a few things that I have working for me that the typical newbie I don't think would have:I have access to costar, parcel quest and SandicorI have the ability to code python (aka scraping data from the internet)Any web coding, website maintenance, etc...

Shoot me a message bro, I'm sure your internet sucks so if you tell me what you're looking for I can help you with numbers.

You can't rely on most what you see on the internet because they are mostly liars.