My wife briefly help a friend manage their monthly short term rental in San Francisco while they were traveling and have a few friends that do it.Monthly rentals seem to book pretty well, but not at a significant premium to long term term rentals. 

According to him, the secret lies in market research and meticulous property management.5.

Manage less, turn over to professional management5.

I'm looking at Class B properties in up-and-coming neighborhoods and plan to self-manage once I relocate.  

Looked around the site, I only see lenders, property managers, agents, brokers, etc. but not developers?

I invest, flip, own a property management company.  

They are investors as well and have good contacts in most markets they sell properties in, insurance, property management, etc.

that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases.

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We manage three large apartment complexes in two different submarkets in Indianapolis.