If you haven't tried calling your local RE brokerages and asking for some solid PM recommendations I would do that.

I've always had a passion for investments & financial markets and would love to diversify into RE investment for my family. 

Give it to her in writing.

I want to get a present for someone who just passed his sales associate real estate exam. This has been a long time coming for him in dealing with many roadblocks and hurdles. This individual has successfully been doi...

Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all you tubular dudes and dudettes out there.What am I listening to?

Hey Jackie, Condos may be a better fit considering your initial investment goals and future plans for building a long-term rental portfolio.

I'll use that to re deploy into another rehab project down the line. 

Maybe better off just selling and re-investing in a different property.

I was just out shopping for new auto and umbrella policies, and most insurers won't write a personal umbrella that covers an STR if the underlying policy for the STR is on a commercial form -- which is the case for most good STR policies. 

However, ideally if we started both with the understanding that collaborations and building the right team in conjunction for planning for our larger future and objectives we'd get to the "freedom" that we are all actually chasing via RE that much faster.