In normal circumstances, your suggestion about avoiding a MTM lease makes perfect sense, and it's a strategy we plan to adopt in the future.

Many modern options (none of them perfect, most adequate) that charge much less than that. 

It can be a perfect combo if you are not being an agent "full time."

It is also very hard to "perfect BRRRR" here. 

Every time I have bought a house for my own use, I have spent weeks browsing before finding the perfect home for me and within my budget.

Perfect advice @Taz Zettergren, thank you so much.

If you are here you need to have an ID, pay taxes, and many other things - forcing people to live in the shadows makes them susceptible to being exploited or engage in criminal activities just to survive.Other countries have much better systems (also not perfect).In Austria for example you need to get a Meldezettel (certificate of registration) from the municipality where you live.

We work really hard to do the right thing for our clients, although hope nobody expects perfection:)

Be conservative and make sure that you have an exit or at least a plan for things not going perfect.

Someone upthread mentioned that Branson has had STRs longer than the booking channels have been around, and that illustrates a point related to this: in the olden days, when you'd look up a vacation rental in the classifieds, people were more tolerant of the idea that they were sort of borrowing someone else's house and things might not be completely perfect and they'd have to procure their own supplies, but these days, the booking channels have created almost hotel-like expectations.