He became a contractor, worked hard, and grew a successful business that produced a lot of money.

I will be able to log the 50% time of business use.

Has anyone else experienced this in the SoCal area? 

Experienced investors typically value properties like yours by analyzing cap rates, cash-on-cash returns, and income growth potential.

They eventually sold their business to another company and things were fine after that.All the others were easy.If you are going to switch, you might want to try that after a resident moves out.  

It is important to remember you own real estate in the Poconos and you are choosing to operate a STR business.

Are any of you experiencing this? 

Great bunch of experienced and helpful people. 

In the latter case, I would still use QB to enter info provided by the 3P servicer and to maintain my general ledger for the lending business.

Your best bet is to find and contact all of the top local wholesalers and go to work for one of them and see what they do right and wrong and see if it's even a business you like.