I'd suggest you also contact local property management companies as they may know people who are looking to buy places.

I have implemented a system where I call people 45 minutes before they are scheduled to come view a unit.

Figured I'd have it shipped to the cleaner, but interested in other people's preferences. 

I could pay a regular marketing firm to build a site, but since so many STR owners have this need, I have to imagine there's an off the shelf option rather than having a custom site built.

The Emergency Rental Assistance Program has a ton of money still available and they are granting people up to the full amount of unpaid rent AND up to three months of future rent.

Put effort into getting to know people beyond online forms – that's the key to successful investments is finding other LPs.

It is great to have you and please feel free to jump in the community - there are certainly great people around here!

Talked to several people and have decided this would not be a great idea for a first investment.  

I was wondering how people do classing for MF properties.

I haven't really exactly figured how much I will need for the business, but I imagine $25,000 would be plenty initially.As a rough estimate, I imagine if I put 20% down + 5% closing costs on a $500k property (what I consider to be an average/nice house in my area), that would still leave me with $165,000 in savings.