The Skeeters have been in real estate for over 40 years.

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

Develop a process for responding.I've been in your situation many times.

I am from North Idaho, and have been a licensed Real Estate agent for a year now.

We don't have kids yet, so we knew this would be the most comfortable/convenient time in our life to house hack.

The biggest thing they are saving you is the time and stress of finding someone to fix when you're out of state.

Initially, I didn't have much time during the day because of my job, but here's what I did: In the evenings, I spent 2-3 hours putting together a list of cash buyers I found on Google using the (Google Ninja trick I learned from realestateskills on YouTube).

Pretty sure you can do it, just have not sat down yet and put the time in to figure it out.  

They don't have a time frame.

I mean it stands to reason it will not get worse, as these interest rate cycles tend to take a long time, and some places already advertising under 5 something rates.