Quote from @Pat Aboukhaled: Curious.. do you think a flat rate for the whole season feels more convenient, or would you rather pay per snowfall to avoid paying for a mild winter?

Gaining a risk-free property, with a long-term resident there to pay down your fees, etc, with a property management company in place to hold your hand along the way and making sure your property is kept up with. 

Great hosts will be good neighbors, will contribute to local tourism and will pay their taxes and permit fees* A major area to improve on the proposal is the 1 hour time-limit for resolving complaints.

Personally I would want to manage the rental myself at least in the beginning to make sure you get good ratings.

It almost feels like they make it difficult on purpose so they get extra revenue on late fees.

The only other option that comes to mind is to make the improvements and try to achieve favorable rental rates to push the story that 2 BR homes rent for a premium because its unique.

There are many STRs that do quite well in the suburbs of major cityies Off the top of my head, I can think of one of the STRs we manage that is 40 mins outside of Dallas and it has a great occupancy rate.

Additionally, a pro-rated portion of tax is due if you sell with debtOr dent is on the priority for the year prior.

So this is creating more competition and more agreesive rent rates and/or concessions like 1 month free to get those vacancies filled.

Higher inflation equals higher interest rates.