As well, in order to properly scale I would prefer someone with more proficience here to at least look at what we are doing and spitball a few suggestions.Thanks so much in advance and apologies if I haven't found a prior relevant answer in the forums I believe I have checked though. 

In a good market it's much better of course.Big wholesalers say you should spend at least $10K/mo on marketing, preferably more.

It integrates with major OTAs, a preferred partner of Airbnb, a Premier partner of Booking, an elite partner of Vrbo and also support Expedia, Marriott and google travel.

Preferably contact them by e-mail to set up a consultation call. 

They may prefer it to go residentail and be willing to make exceptions to keep it that way rather than have the other uses of the property.  

So a sponsor that's great for one investor will probably be terrible for another (and vice versa).I'm a conservative investor, so when I invest in real-estate I prefer sponsors that have at least one full real-estate cycle of experience, little to no money lost, low leverage, and high skin in the game.And there is a multi-family operator that has multiple real estate cycles of experience (decades) and it's track record claims no money lost in that time.

I prefer to wait until the house is empty.

In your long-term rentals, which do you prefer and why? 

I would prefer to avoid those options if possible.

Can they use the kitchen or would you prefer them not?