Vacation rental/Airbnb investing where we can vacation

[Barry Je]

We live in Seattle. Been doing traditional rental investing a couple years and looking to get into Airbnb/vacation rentals.

Are there any resources to read to familiarize myself between differences of vacation vs Airbnb vs Vrbo vs other short term rentals?

Also...location?? I’ve been thinking oceanfront along west coast preferentially?

I’m not looking for insane returns or cashflow. I’m looking for a house we can vacation in ideally waterfront and beach for summer long weekends or a week and rent out the rest of the time. Don’t care about cash flow more interested in not losing monthly income.