check out the book in the BiggerPockets bookstore called "Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth" for the ultimate self-managing guide. 

Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

Also, what’s working for you these days to stay ahead of the game?

Stay curious, keep learning, and embrace every opportunity that comes your way.

Airbnb has more bookings with shorrer stays and fills the holes in the calendar.

Stay blessed.

Not saying there will be issues, but they could move in, decide they hate their new job, or the layout of the house, or trash the place, and they just stay without paying or move out and move on with free temporary housing while they find something better.

Two books that would be great reads since you're just starting out would be Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Getting Started by Brandon Turner and Joshua Dorkin. 

Sometimes you buy low, sometimes you buy high.But as long as you stay in the market, you benefit from the tendency of the market to go up over time.People think of buying a house as this one time thing, but it’s actually more likely that you will buy, sell, refinance a few times over the course of 30 to 60 years.

Is it customary that they have their process displayed online or in a pricing guide so I can shop around?