Recommend that she contact the state's rental assistance program, the victims' assistance program, and make other arrangements to pay or vacation within three days to find more suitable housing - like Section 8.Run your business - or risk having the tenant ruin it.

From my experience working with over 400 investors, I’d recommend starting with house hacking—ideally a fourplex if you find a good deal, but a duplex works too.

Here's a list of things to track:- Formal lease application- Formal signed and executed lease specific to your state- Payment history (I recommend using online rent collection like Apartments.com, RentRedi, etc)- Maintenance requests and receipts- Accounting for all rental-related expenses (repairs, utilities, etc) The more you treat it like a business, the more helpful you are to your CPA come tax time. 

Going live as a STR in 2 weeks Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

I definitely don't recommend renting to a friend.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Buying quality assets that are in a desirable location and in good condition with a modest amount of leverage is IMO the only approach that I feel comfortable recommending.

I can recommend property management, realtor, vendors, if you need them.

Once you sign up there’s a ton of other systems (Freedomsoft, Prycd, Mailers, LLC, phone lines etc)he recommends that you get in order to do his program successfully.

I highly recommend the book real estate by the numbers.