They bring food and hats and other marketing materials.

Looking to purchase one and struggling with the right calculators to determine the real metrics.As I understand it (recently looked at buying a former bnb) you need to treat it like any other STR with your extra costs such as food, etc  baked in to the expenses.

If oven, washer, dryer go out, I would pay them some money for during the week for food to eat out or laundromat, and then fix on the weekend.As you said you're in the learning phase.

Have your agent throw a broker open (possibly with food) to get agents through and get feedback. 

Just my food for thought here

If you brought your spouse and 2 kids with you, and you could argue all of your argue of your time on the trip was looking at real estate, and your personal business and activity circumstance defends being able to immediately deduct it and not treat it as a start up cost... likely 75% of much of the travel costs (airfare, food, etc) would be non-deductible. 

So to win capital some GP's had to put out rosier and rosier stuff to get the money over the next GP and their deal and hope that markets and cap rates with debt would make it come true over time.If sponsors would have just used long term fixed rate debt that was assumable many would be absolutely golden right now and if they needed to sell there are tons of buyers for assumable debt deals.The other properties it's a kick the can down the road and see if they find food to live or croak and the property goes back to the bank and the vultures on the side wait for the right time to take their spoils.

I do manage some small apartment complexes and generally there are not too many issues, but not zero.Also, for me as a PM I have fixed costs per unit, so to have 5 listings in 1 house would be cost prohibitive.Just food for thought, good luck!

Food for thought...

Just some food for thought.Typically from my experience, a lender that is willing to do a "blanket" style loan, lends from their own portfolio.