Just a reminder to everyone doing short term rentals to check with your county to see if you need to be paying a hotel occupancy tax.

You screen them the same way a hotel does: not at all.The only thing you need to verify is their credit card number.

With the exception of 1 bedroom units, you basically have 2 options:-Oversized/commercial machines (potentially multiple sets)-Off site cleaning with clean spares on siteThe latter is almost always the most efficient and basically what hotels do at scale.

They aren't a guest like when you stay in a hotel.

One is seminars...My first seminar I went was "free"... an hour presentation at a hotel where they 'invite' (or was it lure) you to a 3 day seminar for a couple of hundred bucks.  

Regulation will say you have to be registered and pay hotel occupancy taxes, but your unit may not qualify for registration. 

I can't imagine flying out there for a day or two with a hotel can cost you $10K.Flying out there is like you paying for an insurance. 

I can send my tenants to a 5 star hotel for the inconvenience and don't even feel it. 

For $50,000 I am sure I can get far better hotel accommodations than what RAD is offering their inner circle members (because it seems that's all they get in return for their money based on what others are sharing).

Years ago, a friend of mine took on a similar challenge in an older neighborhood near Chicago..he opened up the top floor to create a master suite that felt less like a converted attic and more like a boutique hotel room.