Cater to a broader swath of the renters that visit, or just make them all "A class"?

I'd wager it's more like 98% of BP forum visitors will also never actually do a deal.I think what you're seeing is a return to the 2007 mentality: if I (as a wanna-be investor) don't get a deal RIGHT NOW, then I might never get one!

And if you have even one emergency room visit or hospitalization, you could be out of thousands of dollars.Keep the insurance.

However, Panama City's beach towns don't attract many tourists to make an STR investment profitable.Mexico has cheap properties and a huge and increasing amount of visitors, snowbirds, foreign retirees, digital nomads and work from homers.

Another approach is to “sell” your STR to the HOA as a place for condo owners visitors to stay during visits.  

Hello BP community & Lehigh Valley investors!I'll be visiting Allentown area this Thursday and stay over the weekend. I plan to check my out-of-state property there, along with another one under contract (hopefull...

KC get 35M visitors a year that spend over $1.4B on lodging.

If so how do you keep track of the codes and make sure it's ready for the next visitor?

We had over 62 million visitors in 2014, and it may be even higher in 2015.Best of luck to you.

For example, info on whether they own a lawnmower, how they tend to interact with neighbors, if they like to have a lot of visitors, housekeeping standards, etc?