Catherine id highly recommend spending a full day or two consuming youtube videos that specifically go into detail about this process, theres so much to teach and writing this whole thing out would literally be a whole book.

There are plenty of books out there that give you advice and tips on what to do and how to draft leases but if you're still uncomfortable, then having an agent by your side for the first rental, might not be a bad idea. 

Your advisor is right on in my book.

I would like to build a craftsman or bungalow style, Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Latune, Latham became synonymous with rural land awash with barns and farmland.

Brandon Turner recommended this technique in his books and podcasts, but that was back when he was managing his own properties.

It's relatively easy to look at comparable properties on airbnb with the same bed/bath, general condition, and location and click around their calendar to get a sense of what they're making in bookings each month.

The podcasts, the books, the forums, the community, lean into it.

If the calendar is booked, there's demand.

https://www.amazon.com/California-Landlords-Law-Book-Respons...$26 for the kindle edition could be some of the best money spent on your RE business.  

People don't book to stay inside the home; they come for the experience around it.