I had purposefully waited as long as I could in case it was blocked, but I figured chances were slim at this point. 

With all this said, to answer your question of how you'd value this for a sale, I'd get a STR specific broker that's able to market your property as a turnkey STR with data on the rents, figures, etc.

Hello so I am in a situation that I am trying to figure out with rentals and loans.

If you don't have that, figure out how you are going to get it so that you can move from 'reading about real estate' into 'doing real estate'.  

I want to start local to get my feet wet (figuratively lol). 

Every adult can figure out how to contact you if they think you provided valuable information to them.

Now, you need to figure out how to find deals and pay for them.

You'll have depreciation shielding your passive income, so that's a 35% savings on your marginal income. however if you flip you'll be subject to higher tax rate - so you'll have to figure out what strategy works best for you.

But they can't figure out ElChapo and his crime family walking undisturbed over the border!

Trying to figure out whether is it worth transitioning my 2br 1ba 1100 sqft unit to midterm rental from long term rental in Renton WA?