It might be worth it to spend some marketing dollars to hire a data firm to collect samples to give an accurate estimate for market size. 

You'd be better off building your team on your own with separate companies (if you have the time) or hiring a firm that can help you with acquisitions, project management and long term management. 

I use Jacob Rappaport from Levin & Gann firm from Towson MD. 

Who is more legit and more likely they can help them out.And that my friends, not many people can beat us, or anyone with a bit of logic that apply that logic to their sites.My honest opinion is.. the desperate investors for new leads that have no idea how things work, will be eager to say yes...Those that know how lead generation works will know that sure you can and probably will make a deal here and there sending mailers out, but it is so inefficient it is just not worth it.See it this way.Sending mailers has a 1%-3% open rate.This is LAST in the process in a series line.It doesn't matter HOW amazing your potential prospect finder is.

@Joe S.I was firmly against carpet...

In the process of buying our first STR and am eager to have systems in place on day 1 so that we can scale more efficiently.

But if you do use a real estate agent hold firm at 4.5% and if they don't like it someone else will.

Hey @Kevin Tarazona our firm wholesales properties in Philadelphia and we work with an in house lender.

- Is this something I could realistically build up part time, while working full time at my CPA firm, winding things down. 

Overall, I'm not the most excited about inheriting tenants, and I firmly believe that BRRRR is the path to multiple deals per year, but it was our first deal in Missouri and I don't have a network there yet, so starting out with a turnkey property made the property a little less scary.