I have also utilized owner financing for longer periods of time, including personal residence and 2 barrier island houses on the coast of Florida.  

FHA loans may allow for lower down payments if the property will be owner-occupied.Owner Financing or Creative Offers:Explore properties where sellers are open to owner financing or lease-to-own agreements.

Also make sure to have owners add you to their property insurance policies, so you have liability protection. 

The main reason cited that as a small property owner, not using PM's, if anything happens, the LLC and you will be sued anyway.

reading above sounds like this is not an owner occ so forget what I wrote LOL

Quote from @Brandon Weis: We have historically had in our leases that renter's insurance is required, but we had been lax on enforcing it because owners didn't really care and not all tenants had it.

You should 100% have insurance because of the worst case scenarios (what if someone dies and they blame you the property owner), but it's not something you'll want to use frequently. 

The website works to connect STR owner/operators with reputable cleaners in the area you're located.

Just a follow up question, were you utilizing debt to invest, I have always been taught since a young age to try and not utilize debt (I come from a family of stock market investors, traditional business owners) where debt is not utilized as frequently which I obviously understand debt can be a very powerful tool and utilized in a great way its just something I want to avoid with my investments to an extent any suggestions for investing without debt or as little as possible. 

If you're tax bill is $6-8k (minus the 1031 fees), surely you can make that up by taking multiple swings over a longer period of time.OR pursue some sort of owner occupied strategy with that cash if you can swing a live in flip or house hack.