There’s a few people dabbling with STR property management but nothing that would make a difference.

In my experience, people with an athletic or military background understand the value of hard work and also realize that consistency will bring results eventually.. every set back is an opportunity to learn, grow and get better for the next at-bat.Training and onboarding:As far as programs or tools, I've tried monitoring CRMs and more in-depth platforms (like Sisu) to track agent activities/KPIs.

Moving forward you should be vetting all the people you work with to make sure you don't have spend for what the ARV goal you're trying to hit.

One of the best strategies is using other people's money, like private lenders or seller financing.

Where can you find people that are at least a friend of a friend to reference first before trying strangers?

Again, the solution(s) may take months or even years to sort out.During the process of figuring out the cause(s) of the problem and the solution(s), you'll be paying a structural engineer (and potentially other pros like hydrologists, framing experts, foundation pros, etc.).

Mostly just people looking for handouts so they don't have to work.

Welcome to BP - lots of great people on here that can likely help. 

That said, we do lending out of our SDIRA and there are some considerations about prohibited transactions and set up (checkbook control or custodian managed, for example) etc. that should be reviewed with a custodian or SDIRA expert.

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