@Joey Keske hey Joey, this is a great community to meet people and there are a lot of meetups around tampa.

Real estate is a PEOPLE business, not a PROPERTY business.

Since they are public numbers theres absolutely no protection for us from fraud.When submitting my accord for proof of insurance that goes directly from carrier to customer, not through my hands, unfortunately people have committed fraud with that number too.

Managing contractors and verifying quality of work/timelines can kill a deal.

I have slowly worked on improving management to increase cash flow from $0 to ~$800/month currently.

I wrote a Blog on this very subject.You will eventually learn enough to be of help to yourself, just keep doing it and record the prices so you can start to get a feel for SF costs.One thing I can offer is this website,I have checked them out and they are fairly accurate , you enter your zipcode, I just hate for people to be off by even $10k, that could be your profit on some projects, right?

No property management needed.

I have slowly worked on improving management to increase cash flow from $0 to ~$800/month currently.

But in the end, he's helped a lot of people.

Killington does a great job managing and working with STR owners and it's one of the places I always recommend my investor clients check out because of the STR-friendly regulations there.