My strategy is to register / go to the auctions and learn that way.

My pleasure!

If you are an owner occupant my recommendation would be to build an adu and rent it on Airbnb but you can only Airbnb in Albemarle if you are an owner occupant so otherwise I would do something else

Now is the time as my wife and I have further discussed short term rentals and such recently.

I am looking at investing in my first BRRRR.

@Vy LeRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

-There will be zero vacancy from my perspective as a landlord.  

A couple of my investors are looking to invest in this particular market and just looking to get an idea of the average price per acre for large rural farmland properties.

The way that I would get paid for my time was that I would have to contract the property and then assign the contract to someone else for a little more. 

So that means if my downpayment is $80,000, $30,000 is really going to affect things:1) Capital raised.