You can find Class B properties in the Midwest to BRRRR, but it will take more digging and YOU will need to understand how to analyze & identify them - because a lot of agents, wholesalers, PMCs, etc. will try to sell you Class C or D represented as Class B:(- Many of them don't know/care what Class the properties are, so they're incompetent.- Others know exactly what they are doing, so should be labeled as crooks!

Find a local Realtor with documented STR experience and let them represent you. 

If the neighborhoods support home ownership, it's a painful process with home inspections/repair addendums that are crushing, seller assist requests of 6%, and dealing with the most inexperienced and unprofessional real estate agents (because that's who represents these home owners). 

Each transaction represented a chance to create stability — for homeowners, tenants, lenders, and neighborhoods.For homeowners, many were able to avoid the devastating impact of foreclosure.

We just use the listing agent to represent both sides then use the commissions that would be paid to a buyer's agent to lower the sales price.  

In Toledo, there's actually an ordinance that says you have to have a local representative, usually a PM or attorney, if you live outside of a certain radius of the city.

With prices adjusting downwards, I assume you mean comps of sales a year ago will not properly represent the housing market now.

He was an experienced investor so he didn't want to be represented.

In this case, I’m representing the Seller rather than holding the property myself, so a refinance isn’t in the cards.

Most of the large lenders have affiliate programs and will teach you for free to represent them.