My advisor suggested that at my stage of the game, 8 properties, it likely made more sense to keep the extra money available or in the business to use as emergency funds or to accumulate for another down payment.

Make sure you have a fax machine, cause you'll need to send your documents that way.Rental registration is $70 each, plus convenience fee.

It often feels like a constant game of cat and mouse with phone carriers.

Remember, it's consistent base hits that win the game! 

The appreciation and principal paydown gained over the years was well worth the shell game I played by under rehabbing the houses for rent to keep under that 70% ltv mark and still offering enough to take them down.  

I think AIrBnB and Vrbo has some automatic adjustment for our listing on the off chance that there is a big spike in demand for a big concert or SportsBall (TM) game coming into town.

In my opinion, this is much more effective than texting, which often feels like a constant game of cat and mouse with phone carriers.

But they can't come to part with it and don't really trust handing it off to some PM to run it for STR that doesn't have "skin in the game". 

I have no "skin in the game."

(Everything from early research to closing and listing your STR and getting money coming in) I'm always looking for ways to step up my game as an agent that specializes in helping out-of-state investors buy STRs in the Florida panhandle/Emerald coast.