Karina, this event might spark your interest https://www.facebook.com/event...I work for a large investment firm as a licensed agent here in Atlanta and we understand the process can be a bit daunting to new investors like yourself.

So far they are communicating very well with me and have forwarded me a ton of resources, including vetted cleaning and maintenance teams, lodging tax firm, tips and tricks and even stats on other areas they support STRs.

A cost segregation is something done by a qualifying firm/ expert where they separate out components of the building that may have shorter lives Say they do their thing, separate a value for electrical, HVAC ect- and they say $250k of this is all components with 7 years lifes. 

He was my co-host on a radio show in San Francisco when he was a mortgage broker.

Host a broker’s open with lunch.  

We just got done with meetings with some architectural firms.

But I am saying that I am a firm believer that no one should have to do things they hate, life is to short and money is not worth your sanity!

Lake City and a 5bd/3ba place I co-host on airbnb in the county.

So I kicked the habit - I stopped going to seminars and started to apply some of those ideas that were preached by speakers who were experts at extracting fees from me.I started to attend real estate auctions, studying the process - watching others make a lot of money - I decided to get a credit line - increase my credit card limits and started looking for properties (cheap- ugly buildings) in the neighborhood where real estate auctions were taking place - my primary goal at this time was to learn the market in the area where I wanted to control real estate - I would look at 50-60 houses (but made no offers - when agents would try to qualify me I just said "I have a small inheritance and will not need financing) - I kept a journal of the price per square foot,  comparing properties, and all comments made by sellers and agents (this helped me to find the seller dominate selling motive),  that was helpful - but I soon discovered that I was just looking for real estate in the conventional way  - I needed to do something else - so I started to look for owners of real estate who had problems (I applied Power Prospecting formulas) and at the same time studying creative real estate techniques from the old masters in the industry - became a member of the Washington Real Estate Exchange, hosted a real estate investor club and started to give mini creative financing seminars  while networking with those I wanted to emulate. 

Mgmt firm needs to be an active Broker Licensed.