I spend maybe 15 min a day engaged in the operation but it has not always been that way. 

Once the rep helps you with this, then you ask for their supervisor (since they make more money on having calls transferred) and promote how well that rep helped you; then, you ask the supervisor for the same thing.This was told to me in a seminar (a guru one at that); however, this is dependent on your personal ability to not spend the CC's.  

Spend LOTS of MONEY on mass marketingThe "rate locked affect" is limiting a large portion of the market and stopping transactions from happening.

But STRs will be excited to get away from everything, spend time on the river and nearby skiing! 

It can be draining if you work all day, then need to drive 2hrs after work and spend 4-5hrs working at the house and then 2hrs back. 

I also don't have a GC and am managing the rehab myself and planned to spend under $2,000 for this. 

Setting clear, achievable goals will help guide your decisions.When it comes to getting finances in order are you keeping a budget and know where every dollar you spend goes? 

That is a 99.97% FAILURE rate.Yet you happily listen to those who tell you to do MORE of a strategy with a 0.03% success rate.Come on man.My mission here is to stop all these scamming gurus fill this industry with all sorts of crap to justify you spending thousands on lists, mailers, SMS. 

Catherine id highly recommend spending a full day or two consuming youtube videos that specifically go into detail about this process, theres so much to teach and writing this whole thing out would literally be a whole book.

One option you might try is to go to Bi- Weekly Payments, this way you collect on the same cycle as their paychecks.As long as both of your tenants still have their jobs, I would ride it out, the 2nd thing is how are they maintaining the property, are you going to have to spend thousands of dollars on repairs because of damage to the property.