Instead I choose to travel most months (came back from NZ this morning) while obtaining good RE returns.  

Hello, can you deduct travelwhen looking into foreign markets for possible purchase of a short-term rental?

In the house that I hope to rent out to mid-term travelers there is a treadmill and I am thinking whether to keep it there. 

You could start with targeting travel nurses and other traveling professionals while you try to work your way into the film crowd. 

I think when you hire a PM you have 3 choices 1)  A very small local provider (<15 units) and they tend to me 1-2 person operations, they are the one unclogging toilets, answering guests, etc and it is tough to do everything, so things lack. 2) A large/nationwide provider where you are only a number and they usually lack local resources 3) A mid size local provider who have resources and you are not just a number.Through effective revenue management with a revenue manager, and being listed on 15+ sites including Marriott Homes & Villas, JetBlue and Allegiant Airlines, Hyatt and Amex Travel (coming soon) we are bringing in more revenue than most can self managing, offsetting our fee.One of the top questions I tell people to ask their manager is the fees, who keeps them? 

Plans to were announced last month to invest $2B into the cities airport in anticipation of the population/business travel growth. 

I looked at buying a duplex in Sacramento and doing a long term rental and STR/MTR on the other side to travel nurses/business people.  

However, today, homeowners are allowed to execute a buy-out clause that simply pays the full amount of the upgrades done by Curbio.

Our property manager aims for getting the work-from-homers, traveling nurses, etc vs going after the vacationers and it's doing well to the point of we don't get to use it as much as we would like!

@Brandon Stiles the process steps are identical - how you execute them is different.