@Sean Gallagher - My initial reaction is that if you're thinking about a property manager to help oversee the daily operations you're probably at a point where you need to get one.

Had a newbie client that bought 5 SFR rentals and called us 3-5 times daily.

It is virtually daily that i see purchases or considered purchases that appear to have no path to success.  

However, we still get beat up on a daily basis over our fees.I left one of the largest PM companies, who had those exact fees, and started my own business with the sole intention of eliminating all of those fees.

It sounds like there's no consistent place to go to given daily rate changes, quotas to hit etc?

Often you are getting a pretty sizeable discount for your efforts, resulting in both captured equity and cashflow.The best ugly properties go quickly, so when I was looking, I got in the habit of searching daily.  

I can't post much publicly due to BP's self-promotion rules, but if you have any questions, send me a message, or reach out to our support team who would be happy to help.We have almost half a million users using our platforms daily who absolutely love them.

Almost daily I get a phone call of: "Hey, I am calling on your property listed for rent (that they are obviously reading because that's how they got my #), I was wondering, is it available?". 

For my short term rentals I am really going to focus on adding improvements that will increase my daily rate and guest experience.

Keep your prices just a hair lower than your competitors for the first month or two until you get some good reviews, then raise them to market rate.