Looking for suggestions from people who have done this kind of stuff before

You could not beat the Chinese, the Mexican and the Indian that first arrive here, and those countries has million people that could produce more with less money. 

Cheers guys, looking forward to reading some good stuff from all you "lunatics" that broke out of the rat race!

After guests book, I always ask them when they expect to arrive. 

Because the majority of us don't trust anyone because everyone is peddling fake stuff.

Just a bunch of uneducated dudes slappin whack stuff up on Facebook marketplace.

I notified tenant and arrived to do the work.

As others have said I don’t travel to exotic locations to invest, my stuff is fairly local so the actual need for a business meal is low.

Like the previous posters said, a lot depends on the property type and strategy used.Generally speaking, Zillow is all you need if you're doing LTR, Furnished Finder for MTR, and Airbnb/VRBO for STR.People WAY overthink this stuff.

For one project I had a GC submit a bid that was $500K less than anyone else, but they didn't follow the bidform, and when I looked closely they omitted a whole bunch of stuff.