If you still want to go the route of Airbnb, I would recommend these resources: Airbnb Permitting Help - Melissa Wright at STRpermit.com or Descansa PDX can help as well.If you are looking for more midterm rentals I'd look at FurnishedFinders - Create your own listing on a site frequented by traveling nurses/doctors. 

If you are looking at larger deals and generally anything maybe 30+, reaching out to the top brokers in the area frequently is the best way. 

If deal flow and deploying investor capital are your concerns, the natural converse is in what real estate investment business models are frequent/new acquisitions not an issue? 

AirDNA doesn't know how to filter these inflated prices out so I will frequently see a projection for $200,000 annually when I know that it is more along the lines of $45,000.

Unfortunately, most of the time, the Owner has to absorb the additional costs.Professional Liability Insurance, (also known as errors and omissions insurance) is frequently carried by architects to cover costs resulting from design faults.

I never underwrite using the CAP rate ... in fact, the only time I have any curiosity about the CAP rate is when I am thinking about selling a property (and am trying to determine how much someone will pay).CAP rate is a dangerously misused metric which is far to frequently batted about as though it has significance beyond being the inverse of a P/E ratio for a business/property at a point in time.

Additionally, if you or your partner ends up needing frequent suburb access, you are positioned well for easy access to both the city center and suburbs with the highway access. 

Agents frequently don't understanding wholesaling and aren't willing to work with wholesalers.

I see this frequently. 

I wanted to write this post because I get asked the question quite frequently about what I think about off-market/wholesaler deals.