I'm just educating people on where to put their money.

They are high value areas where people want to live and make great areas for STRs.

Short term rentals can work in urban areas too...people travel for many reasons. 

I, and likely most people on here, would recommend finding a mentor in your area that has sor hands on experience with REI or property management.

There are great people here which could guide me in the right direction and I appreciate any advice.

I would love to receive advice from people about what to look for and not when crunching the numbers on a potential property.

I have recently joined biggerpockets after reading multiple books that recommended me here.Thanks a lot for reading my post and may God bless the reader & people that have taken an effort to provide me with guidance and help here.

If you need to know how to find them, one recommendation is locate people who have bought properties for cash in that area, then cold call them to see if they're looking for more.

And what specific people I should contact before starting.

I know of people going with Credit Unions getting significantly lower rates than the rest of the market, but then I know of plenty of lenders claiming that you can’t get that at all.