I’m always looking to implement best management practices so what can I, as a landlord, do to protect myself when accepting online payments?

Building more homes is the right idea, but will take years to implement and there are many issues to overcome: we don't even have the labor. 

We aren't even implementing what we learned because we are too busy dealing with a personal issue and haven't been able to travel much for the last couple of years.

You may need to implement an hourly minimum rate for tire kicker buyers and low balling time wasters. 

Just depends on strategy and implementation.

A matter of fact that was a huge metric for my me and my wife because we were implementing a house hacking strategy moving property to property with 4 kids.  

Let them know that there will be routine quality control checks/inspections so that if your third party inspector finds any issues with quality, the GC will be responsible for paying for the correction.These are just some theories that I think will help and plan to implement when I operate out of state flips.

We have also done window replacements and replaced analog thermostats with programmable digital thermostats.Interested to hear if anyone else has had success with weatherization/insulating and other energy efficiency measures.

We just implemented this strategy.

DFW AirBnB is getting expensive to operate and find good deals due to all the HOA regulations that are being implemented..If the property won't cash flow in LTR, then your option is limited to listing it, but I don't exactly know without looking at the numbers, as you can figure out some month to month strategy to lease the unit for a while.One thing that I always tell my clients is that when you are doing AirBnB or any STR/MTR, you are entering into the hospitality industry.