Purchase price: $92,500 Sale price: $270,000 This West Philly home was located in the Carroll Park neighborhood of 19131 and was a great site at just under 1500 sqft.

So here are my questions: while there are sections on this site to find people to create your team, how do you know who are the best people to be on your team when there are so many?

Think about what features you really want.Suggest you connect with @Dan Z. on this site for some insight.

You can pay for it with an FHA loan or a standard loan.

But if it's the latter, one site I like to use is NeighborHood Scout. 

We are realizing that this home doesn't fit our lifestyle anymore and we want to pay down debt and start saving to buy our first rental property. 

Driving traffic to your direct booking site, if you have one, can definitely be a challenge but I personally believe it's becoming more important all the time, particularly for STR. 

Property owners won't know that going into it, but they are lured in by low fees.The old saying is true: you get what you pay for, not to say that all PM companies that charge "high" will do a good job, but I feel confident in saying that if you are paying very little for services, you will get very little in return.Best wishes!

I take care of the paperwork, finances, accounting, paying bills, finding tenants, creating the leases, interviewing tenants by phone/zoom, etc.

You can see if it appreciated historically and then you can think its a good deal after 2 years of waiting for it to pay you back?