Don’t forget to keep building your network; those connections are gold in real estate.

You may not need Booking.com but I use it as we have guests coming from out of the country due to St Augustine's tourist attractions and history.  

You will have to deal with guests, design and furnishings which is different from long term rentals. 

Quote from @Jason Park:This is very informative and as good as gold.

However, these brackets are frequently pulled off by guests, leading to high maintenance costs.

Even if California will not relent on adjusting emission control standards, and the more than 1,000 supplemental workers at the Stellantis Toledo Jeep plant who are expected to rise to full-time permanent status are laid off, on balance, local incomes are rising.For the vast majority of individuals, a home is the largest single investment of a lifetime.

This can be seen more and more with all of these vendors and the fact that they are so "pro guest" is also another ongoing problem. 

GREAT agents, lenders, contractors, wholesalers, etc. are worth their weight in gold.

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We currently use a simplisafe system to monitor the driveway to audit how many guests enter and if they bring pets.