Appliances these days are garbage and not worth repairing as it’s not cost effective.

Winters are milder than western Pa. and no lake effect snow. 

With that said...what I would love to know or hear back from BP forum is what is a cost effective way to build a funnel of leads in the first place.

And while I hear a lot about "establishing teams you can trust" to do these things, it doesn't seem cost effective to have a team of support people for a single property. 

Using this list will also get you the leads that use short-term financing, so in effect, can turn out to be an even better, more complete list, because not all active investors pay cash 100% of the time. 

Mailing post cards is expensive and not nearly as cost effective per deal as SMS nor as fast a response.Other tools that I have looked at and terse comments.

With the BRRRR method, how can you own 10 properties or more and not be effected by “ debt to income ratio”?

Too little and it has no effect, too much and it has the opposite effect.

A lot of money has been chasing "safe" returns over the past 7-10 years and large real estate syndicators have sold the promise of college rentals effectively to pool significant amount of capital.  

Orlando passed some laws/ordinances regarding STR and limiting the ability of folks to do so without registering with the state something to the effect of $275.