If you’ve had to move fast on a deal before, I’d love to hear how you managed it and what strategies worked best for you.

However, most people are not realtors so you do not have access to it.

Hello,I bought a house at the auction with people living in it.

Online videos on social media platforms, educating your clients about nuances in private lending, coming on a popular blog to help people with financing issues, and connecting with others in your industry that specialize in something else. 

There are still successful STRs and people are doing it.

I see many people complaining about needing private or hard money lenders because of the difficulty with renovation loans or bank approvals, etc.

In my 12+ years of managing my own, I had no big issues.

Not saying you did, but often people love to quote the cashflow but conveniently leave out capex, which can be considerable on a bunch of individual houses. 

A lot of the advice on this thread is a bunch of self-serving nonsense from people who own 10 less properties than you. 

That includes weekly cleaning, chemicals, flushing of filter when it needs it, topping off the pool, and my people clean the pool deck when it needs it.