Before then I’d been renting a furnished room in other peoples houses so I could live for $400-500/mo (less than 10% of my pay instead of the 35-50% others choose) instead of a 1000-1200/mo 1br while making a good salary and traveling around the world with my spare cash.

We have family in the Wichita, KS area which helps because we travel there every few years and our family has good area familiarity that we dont have.

I had a traveling nurse stay with me for multiple month-plus stays and was an awesome guest.

Early retirement, more time with family, travel, charity work, vacation home? 

You could even try renting out your unit first to get the hang of things, while you go somewhere else or vacation (I have a neighbor that does this all the time while she travels for business.)

Ended up renting to a travel nurse that paid 6 months upfront Lessons learned?

I'm thrilled that we've grown to this point in our portfolio, but we are now up to 10 single family homes, and with other (more than) full time jobs, we are desperately looking for some help from someone that can help us track rents, walk throughs (property upkeep), etc.We have done an excellent job up to this point, but it is not sustainable, since we travel for work, and our tenants need more communication/attention.Any suggestions/thoughts here?

No more long walks in the snow to get a drink, or pick up some extra cash.For some hard numbers maybe make a phone call to the parties to these re-developments over in Michigan:https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2019/09/former-flint-school-celebrates-grand-opening-as-apartments.htmlhttps://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/05/westwood-heights-school-district-to-turn-shuttered-elementary-into-housing.htmlAnd i case you don't know and decide to travel there, Flint is very very dangerous.Just my 2 cents.

(You can also travel down US1 and be in Moore County in 15-20 minutes.)I work in tech remotely, started web design in high-school, didn't take the college path went to the school of hard knocks, now work as a support engineer at a major pharmaceutical earning just north of six figures.

I would choose whichever one is closet to you or easiest for you to travel to.