I'm primary long term rental person. 

Look for someone who does 24+ deals per year and is also an investor personally.

(Other financing arrangements might be possible.)You can only obtain one home equity loan per year, even if you have fully paid off the prior home equity loan.Regulation of LendersTexas restricts who may lawfully issue a home equity loan.An unlicensed person is not permitted to make a home equity loan unless that individual is either related with the borrower to the second degree, or is the seller and is providing financing for the property.A home equity loan must be secured only by the home itself, and the lender may not attach the loan to any additional assets as collateral.

I personally only buy vacation rentals in areas I want to take the family on vacation.This is not TX for me.

This would probably help since the next one I build I could immediately put for sale and do a short term rental while it sells.I have many years of construction experience and have also done a fix and flip, in addition to building ground up construction, as well as 10 years of entrepreneurial experience running a paddle board rental company... i have a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech , a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from UT Austin, and did Postdoctoral research using Computational Engineering where I designed, manufactured, and tested a shock mitigating metamaterial...

There are only so many PRODUCTIVE hours each person is capable of producing.  

I am a diy person but I realize that this is gonna take some help from a community of like minded individuals.

Until then, I'm anticipating consistent double digit increases in insurance YOY.My Thoughts:I personally think insurance expense escalators should have 5-10%(as an avg) expense escalators for the foreseeable future.Am I alone in feeling this way?

If you are self-employed, there are specific loan programs designed for self-employed persons as opposed to conventional W-2 financing. 

If you are not personally in the area checking in on the property, Evolve does not look after maintenance well at all!