Have their buddy that happens to own an hvac, or electrical company or something submit a receipt and then the tenant will get deducted rent.Now obviously they can't pull that off every month but that can add up quick if they do something once every 3 or 4 months - times 60+ houses - or say 10 houses that get clever tenants.Maybe a quick adjustment of your plan that the tenants have to call your guys would be an easy fix to that.But at the end of the day, you're still having to do make ready and leasing of the place, so you're not really replacing the PM effort. 

With that said Listing agents got clever and now start asking for legitimate offers before hand to know which buyers are serious buyers and weed out the ones that are not.

And FYI, bobs phrase was the slightly cleverer "cash faux".

If you can do it yourself it might work but remote management of a short-term rental scares me.2) There's a lot of additional expenses you don't have with traditional rentals like cable, internet, furniture, kitchen items, linens.3) To get high occupancy you need a good location which equates to a high sales price.4) It seems 10 times harder to find good contractors in vacation areas like that.

I tried AHS a few years ago on several properties thinking this might be a clever solution for managing repairs in my units.

I've never been known to be the dumbest guy in the room, I'm hardworking, resilient, humble, clever and BROKE.  

She has played a clever game of never asking us directly for repairs, bringing in code enforcement to cite me and then denying me access to make the repairs despite agreed upon appointments and written notifications.

Consider all the amenities provided - the parking lot, the building, the rooms, vending and ice machines, bedding, towels, linens, toiletries, etc.

I may be a witty guy, but I'm not clever enough to make up something that absurd.  

We are also in a buyers grou where we get discount on Helix mattresses, and then we get our linens from hotel suppliers such as HD Supply and others.