I think I would therefore, not allow a tenant to sign a lease more than 1 month before the move-in date - that way the security deposit can be used for damages if I lose any rent after the move-in date while I am trying to find a new tenant; and the security deposit only covers 1 month.

Then they will also be unprofitable and they will sell them, it is a vicious cycle and there’s simply too many STR‘s in the Poconos right now, the demand isn’t there and basically no one is making any profits off STR right now in the Poconos, they’re basically all losing money month over month on STREven right now in peak Summer season, most of my friends places are barely booked: they have low occupancy rates, and when they are booked, it’s only because they had to lower their prices extremely low like $100 per night.

She's then at risk of losing her money, but it also means she won't do that to another landlord.

And having them talk directly with your contractors trying to beat them down will drag things out and probably cause you to lose vendors.. 

Have you ever heard of a Landlord being sued by a Tenant and losing property?

So you need to be able to turn the unit quickly for a new renter every time you lose one. 

As I mentioned in prior posts, someone is going to lose - its either the Gen Z's who cannot afford to buy a house and crush the majority of their generation from building wealth through real estate home ownership (again BP would make you think everyone in the world is real estate investors, but less than 10% of people are real etate imvestors.) 

@Daria B.You're not "losing" depreciation on anything.

Fools investmentThere's a fire- cannot rebuild and investor loses everything; owner ruins his credit; injured tenant sues everyone; everyone broke.Lender calls the loan- everyone losesPaying down a loan does not reduce a payment, this is not a HELOC so that part is not math.There is zero equity to loan on, no one will loan on this.What would buyer have to do to convince a poor elderly person to take this risk- scare them, threaten, lie?

Would you raise them slowly over the course of 3-4 years until we get to the pro forma or make bigger rent raises now with the risk of losing many tenants?