Experience with Distressed Properties: While it's true that many clients of real estate agents are looking to sell for a profit in non-distressed situations, investor-friendly agents specialize in or are at least familiar with foreclosures, short sales, and REOs (bank-owned properties).

You want to compare the experiences available there so you know where you have to land to be successful in that market as a STR.Furnishing is the main cost that I didn't see and @Bryce Jamison hit several other ones.

There's also potentially some liability protections you can have in place by having the work done by the GC rather than you as individuals (discussion for your legal team). 

After this experience, he will most likely choose for future projects to call DOT or get an email with preliminary approval to use AASHTO guidelines in lieu of DOT requirements for your project.

Travel is mine, I wanna see the world, meet people, and experience life outside my comfort zone. 

I'm hoping everything continues so I can return to let everyone know about my first experience using a hard money lender. 

My experience does not agree with yours as I do not see Ohio everywhere online and I invest in the Midwest. 

In my experience, once it gets to the no communication stage it usually never works out

(which I like) so I would like someone with local experience rather than be the farthest flung property for a city-focused PM (if they'd even do it) and potentially become neglected or incur higher costs because of distance and/or unfamiliarity.A little help?

I would add....does your partner have rei experience?