Admittedly, I am not one that typically finds paid mentorship very valuable, but I also respect that my degree is in business with a focus on real estate, and my first job out of college was in real estate (so it is a little hard for me to take my 20 yrs of knowledge and rewind it to try to view mentors from a completely fresh lens).A couple points: I view mentors, especially these expensive ones as a catch-22. 

I'm sure there's other stuff you'll want to factor in - what businesses are moving to and from each areas. 

Everything looks great and a year later that employer goes out of business or lays everyone off? 

Airbnb dynamic pricing has ruined the whole industry.Airbnb's dynamic pricing isn't designed to get YOU a booking. 

Would your STR business even exist without Airbnb?  

A lot of family businesses cannot stay in business upon parent death due to no longer getting the prop 13 property tax discount.  

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.  

Self management works if you are local and can separate emotion from business.

Personally I think Josh himself is innocent but the company definitely is involved in shady and deceptive business practices.

For example, $50,000 loan at 10% paid out evenly over 10 years.Like I said, super new to this part of the business, so trying to wrap my head (and spreadsheets) around it.