Hope things improve moving forward for you and in the grand scheme of things, $2600 loss I would just chalk up to a lessons learned and one you can continue to teach others about in the future.

I hope you come on board :) 

Appfolio typically requires you to have 50+ units to on-board last time I checked.

I am a board member with CFRI, the local chapter for the national REIA and I personally know about a dozen private lenders that are members.

However after speaking with my husband (who is totally on board and supportive) I feel it would be better to pick a market in my "backyard".

The bookkeeper that you hire must specialise in STR's/Vacation rentals bookkeeping and should be on-board with all the tools and requirements you have.

If that happened to me, I would chalk it up to "my bad" that I didn't pay closer attention to my spam inbox, as he did in fact give and prove he gave proper notice. 

IF this was my property, I would sell the house and chalk it up as a learning experience.  

If everything is above board and can be pretty well documented its likely workable for at least us (but I'd imagine same with a good amount of DSCR Lenders)

Originally posted by @Steve Morris:If it's your first one - HIRE AN EXPERIENCED MANAGER.A lot of these are tenant management issues like private/Medicare pay and keeping vacancies to a min.If you build and get it running well, then at least you can decide to keep it or sell it at a better price Where do you find experience manager that wants to hop on board another train?