Remote Airbnb management questions

[Scott K.]

Do any of you manage your STRs remotely? We're about to embark on this ourselves. We currently manage an Airbnb where we live (2-family home where we reside in one unit and rent the other) so have decent experience there. We intend to find a cleaner, handyman, and contractors for the remote STR, which will be a 1.5 hour drive from where we live. My biggest questions are around packages and parties:

-- How do you manage packages and remote deliveries? Who receives them and opens them? Do you rely on your cleaner or someone else?

-- What about parties? We'll do everything we can to prevent shady bookings, but it's hard to be bulletproof. What if someone ends up inviting additional unaccounted guests? Have you had to cancel a reservation remotely? If so, how did you go about evicting the guests?