However, they’re also extremely well managed, with personal check-ins for every guest.

Having the apartments in your personal names is another issue, hence the attorney

Talk to a mold remediation person.  

Once the rep helps you with this, then you ask for their supervisor (since they make more money on having calls transferred) and promote how well that rep helped you; then, you ask the supervisor for the same thing.This was told to me in a seminar (a guru one at that); however, this is dependent on your personal ability to not spend the CC's.  

You can begin with FSBO leads, expired, your personal circle, and 1 form of paid ads.. this is how I began.Hope this helps, All the best!

Food in fridge is from April this year and it basically looks like someone was half way through moving out and then something happened and so a bunch of stuff is still in house. specifically one room filled with about 10 burner phones, 3 tvs, personal clothes, mail, kids personal items and bunch of random stuff new with tags, etc etc. he also had pets which was against lease term. one of the rooms was used as a pet room completely destroying carpet and staining walls with urine etc. 

But, that is not always the right answer and you should speak with someone familiar with your personal situation to get advice specific to you.

Also, I want to know if a property such as this warrants an LLC even if it is my first investment outside of personal use properties.

Analyze each city's rental demand, property prices, and your personal goals to make the best choice.

Personal/rental/work.Normal insurance providers won't touch an airbnb.Any help would be amazing!