Outside of that, I use turbotenant for managing all my own rentals and they have been a phenomenal tool for building leases and self-managing properties. 

We have some great tools and past webinars to help you get started.

I'm biased because I work for Hospitable.com but a top tip for short-term rentals would be to look at tools that help you to automate hosting.

Density is one big tool in the fight to bring prices down . 

We also do all the integrations for you as far as your marketing tools (Cold calling dialers like CallTools, websites like Carrot for example) as well as provide great customer success training showing you and your team how to use the system.I'd be happy to do a screen share meeting to show you or anyone on the the thread around and see if its a fit for you at this point in time  

BP has various tools to help you analyze your deals (rentals, flips, wholesale, etc). : https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators7.

What I think is a valuable tool/person to have in your corner now more than ever is an investment specialist or specifically STR specialist realtor that knows how to underwrite and thus knows how to find a good deal.

@Frank JakubiecIf you can make the numbers work hard money is a great tool if you are flipping properties or doing a BRRRR deal

I've enjoyed creating and tweaking our own analysis tool to help us analyze deals.I don't think we are interested in pursuing flips, but I'm curious to better understand the analysis side of this strategy to continue my learning.I've tried to do some research, but I keep coming up with some areas that I'm not following. 

@Jay Hinrichs: said "PS Jonathon i am the dream guy all you morby folks are trying to find :) the money"JLH Capital PartnersContactLenderPodcast Guest on Show #222and further@Jay Hinrichs: said "I personally could give a rip about the buyers safety if they dont know any better and get wiped out so what.. but Sellers thats a whole different matter.. a sub 2 gone bad can destroy them financially emotionally physically break up marriages etc etc.JLH Capital Partners"@Jay Hinrichs: said "So thats the reality from my point of view I made a business out of this for many years and my dad made a business out of this in the 70s through the 80s so lots of experience at it.