Co-Star is an amazing platform for data, but it is costly.

From most OOS investors I am speaking to this is where most of the attention is, so be prepared for competition - seems that this forum was revived from the dead but to answer the original question with a few practices you can manage the air-bnb yourself to get higher occupancy, I would recommend educating yourself on tricks for the platform those will make the biggest difference - definitely helps having someone take care of your air-bnb account and for completely hands off investing do that but just previewing/welcoming who comes in can be done remotely in a professional manner I have seen it done in multiple states. 

Short term rental is always a larger gamble with more headaches than a long term rental.

This platform is a great way to share strategies, perspectives, and insights.

Even with stocks, there is "full service" where you call a broker to sell the stock for you instead of selling it yourself through a platform.

@Steve Vaughan  agreed very slippery slope... we all hear about Hewlit and Packard starting in a garage with 15k of credit cards in the early days... and well look where they ended up.. so who knows.. but it sure is a gamble.

However, we were basically gambling on every transaction at this point in our career.

Explore other rental platforms besides Zillow and consider social media marketing or yard signs.

I know there are some platforms out there that walk a fine line, but claim to be compliant.  

Will try learning from this platform for the next few months.