I think it's really helpful to get a few different perspectives from others.Even if you pay a management company eventually, I think it's a really good learning experience to have that deeper experience initially.  

Everything I know from watching the city of Denver's STR rules and following Airbnb laws for years says that Denver will eventually catch on.

So I did so, and eventually put it on the MLS through a local broker, and luckily got it sold and broke even. 

Do you have a dream home in mind that you would eventually love to have, or maybe a couple of vacation homes?

Now I'm in a position of looking to attract a partner to grow a real estate business and grow a portfolio of mainly Multi family properties and eventually into Commercial development down the line ( I'd also like to invest in some single family).

Build a profile of this town, and use it as leverage in your eventual negotiations of the triplex. 

I invest, so I can eventually not need to have to worry about paying for my kids' college educations or my own retirement.

And eventually get into multis!

I’m thinking long term and would like to also flip, buy and hold, the brrrr method etc. eventually.

In addition, they would have outstanding market appreciation of the SFH.The higher rent appreciation market will always eventually have better cash flow than a lower appreciating market as long as the higher appreciation market Rent appreciation is greater than the expense increase which is virtually certain in Ca with property tax being basically a fixed price and most mortgages being fixed rate.