Material participation test, which is (for the sake of this post) likely going to be 500 hour test (500 hours materially participating in the rental activities) Please note this "managing the property manager" or traveling out to the property to look at it or just looking at investments to buy or reviewing financials in themselves do NOT count towards those hours.

We are leaving CA for tax reasons and because the distance of maintaining properties was getting to be too much (there were not great property managers or contractors so we were having to travel back for everything).We have made a few offers on 4plexes in Las Vegas but have not found the right property yet. 

So you can charge 15% more on your direct booking site and guests would still pay less booking through your direct booking site.Getting on Google Travel:Although Google Travel is one of the lesser-known OTAs it's not actually an OTA.

It won't make sense for every traveler, particularly for a single, business traveler only staying one night, I might argue that STR's wouldn't make sense.But for a family of 5 that would have otherwise had to share 2 double beds and call in a cot from the front desk, it's a no brainer.My family of 5 was able to book a condo on the beach for 4th of july for 4 nights, about $250/night all in!  

I got most if not all of my travel for that year disallowed..

Also, if I am traveling out of the country, they are not dependent on my cell plan, as long as I have wifi I can send and receive calls with a virtual number from anywhere in the world. 

Travel expenses to out of state properties? 

We have 2 paid off cars and paid off home, no kids and we don’t travel excessively. 

I know personally when im looking for a place to stay if its a little more pricey my brain usualy jumps to "oh this place must be better than the others" since this is a heavy market for vacation rentals and not traveling professionals I could see that being a factor but it makes it very difficult to price and what price point to risk.

People who travel to Tulum are generally well-to-do and/or traveling in group.