Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

You can boost posts to bring more eyes, hard to beat having thousands of eyes by doing a post and boosting it. 

We never had a terrible problem with huge parties - I have full-time homeowners on both sides of me that keep an eye on things - but I did have some problematic guests when we had a 2 night minimum.  

While we are not truly concerned with making it someones dream home, we do want it to be smooth/safe with a modest level of eye appeal and without a massive time or money investment.

will let them know that you know they smoke, and that you're keeping an eye on them.  

Those can be eye-opening experiences.  

Think all my focus will be post-labor day.There is SOooo much more going on here than is readily visible to the novice eye. 

Your best bet might be to find a private fund that aggregates money and lends it back out to real estate investors.It is worth adding that this is not a tax-efficient way to get involved with real estate.  

Turns out the bartender brother is so far underwater even his "owner finance plea" is so bad I would be a fool to get a client involved in. 

@Cody L.I agree with the sentiment personally but I have made some serious funds(to me anyway) with clients where this functionality was needed because of some stodgy entity involved (bank, govt office etc) whose policy would only allow them to receive or send information in person, by snail mail, or by fax.