Focus on long-term guests, like corporate clients staying 30+ days, because it’s easier and brings steady income.

@Geoff Engel If you don't want to be a landlord but still want to be involved with investing you could be a private money lender for flips or in partnerships and bring the money to the deal.

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Most of the industry is blue collar work and some of our tenants have their rent paid by their corporate HQ, our all in cost for a new home there is $250k and we are bringing in $3k a month in rent and have had zero vacancies. 

There are many ways to skin it but I would go ahead and upgrade to QBO Plus.

You need to do the research too if your area would be bringing in more money as an STR, some areas would do better as a long term rental as well. 

If you'd ask this question while still employed I'd say apply the $8500 toward knocking down the debt quicker but since that is not the case I would build up your reserves to about 6 months then begin applying those funds to bring down the debt. 

(It’s multi-family but not entirely stabilized.)Rehab Costs: How much should I budget for bringing vacant units to market-ready condition?

There are a lot of ways to skin this cat. 

Although as @Drew Sygit asks, what have those PMs that pledged to do it better now learned that may bring them back into line with main stream service providers?