We also have Hospitable configured to text message me if we don't have anyone there the night before a guest arrives with the canned message ready to go so we can just copy/paste to the guest that they can get in early.  

The only negative is that you have to check your bank account to see if the money has arrived.

Should I take out equity in the home towards a crash pad and/or doing some minor upgrades on the home OR should I save up to get into air BNB arbitrage to increase my money flow and put that towards fixing the home and eventually obtaining a crash pad.

I remember me saying on here somewhere in a post many years ago that cycles can be a game of musical chairs when no more spots the investors crash.

we already have manpower issues at these numbers.I suspect it won't do much more than crowd out private investment given private developers are already building houses at almost the highest rate since the 2008 crash. 

Started buying right after the crash when the numbers just seemed too silly not to buy and then stopped buying and started selling right when covid hit.A few years before covid i was doing land flipping on a national basis and that was doing ok too.

The vast majority of states also leverage figures on a federal return as a starting point to define taxable income, making adjustments to those figures to arrive at the portions of income that are taxable for state tax purposes. 

While property values crashed I was raising rents right through it.

Got rehab pics and started getting rent for a few months then it all came to a crash.  

If you send snail mail, be sure to send certified so you have proof it arrived in human hands.Personally, it's baffling how so many people have poor communication skills when we have so many opportunities to communicate in today's world.