Just my personal opinion - get a mentor or a person who already has good experience running STR business, preferably in your area (but not 100% required). 

Feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions!

That's why it's important to be confident in your team so you feel like everyone is working together towards a common goal (good investment for you, agent gets paid for their support). 

If not, feel free to reach out. 

But the risk to the seller on this deal is immense you have a guy tying up a property who has no ability to close it and then sell it to whoever will give him money and that person could be nefarious get into title rip rents could give 2 craps about the sellers credit etc etc..

Aiming to maximize cashflow to fund future investments, but as newly weds rent by the room doesn't feel practical right now. 

Look at the current reviews and see how people feel about the place.

Please feel free to reach out.

Still close to Lake Tahoe and can go down to Minden/Gardnerville for an even more boutique, small town feel, or zoom up to Reno for a little bit of a higher pace. 

If you want to know more about the management companies I tried feel free to DM me.