You have to make your personal decision, considering the time and effort it will take you to DIY it; the risk of it being done wrong, and the potential opportunities you might miss by not letting the pros handle it for you.The more expensive your property is - the more reasons you have to hire professionals.

The manager by action or inaction could be sued directly or in addition to the property owner for a tenant or guest being injured.There is an additional liability extension called personal injury or landlord personal injury that picks up the liability for a situation such as being sued for wrongful eviction or violating fair housing in some way.

If this is the wrong approach please let me know what you think is the right one. 

There’s nothing wrong with your plan even with the delinquencies, it may just take you a little longer than you would like.

Has anyone experienced a transaction being wrongfully reversed by there payment system?

They are wrong because AirBNB has a lot of single rooms listed that skew the data.

Offsets, root/soil intrusion and some build-up in the pipe.

I guess there's nothing wrong with the general principle of letting tenants install things once in a while in a rental unit, but I generally like it when they don't.

You have the right motivation, but the wrong direction.

VRBO integration is 🚮, taxes are constantly incorrect, channel commission wrong.