Taylor has extensive experience with investment properties and creative financing solutions, and he’s great at finding options tailored to unique situations like yours.If you’d like, I can share his contact info or make an introduction.

Also just look online and steal some ideas...I used to Google Luxury Kitchens and then figure out how to do the same for less $$.You'll be fine with your experience.

In my experience Vrbo has buried Airbnb. 

Ultimately, every applicant is a risk in one was or another, no one is 100% guaranteed or qualified, you could have the best applicant on paper screw you over, or even pass away, you just need to do research and use common sense in my experience.

Property managers can make or break your out of state experience.

Ask how many units they manage and how much experience they have.

(In my experience.

That's looking at it through a narrow lens though, when you zoom out to 5-10-15 years down the road and calculate the difference, in my experience the appreciation has been far more beneficial than the $200 difference per month in cash flow from a different market.

I took the Airbnb bookings and now I'm around 80/20 Airbnb/VRBO.Based on a recent bad experience that I had with Airbnb (it's a separate thread out here), I called VRBO and asked them how I can get more booking requests from VRBO. 

It's the second Wed of every month, a small group of people and variety of investor experience levels.