I read about a property in Scottsdale I think it was, I'll have to look it up, that the owner said had been treated like a "rock group" in a hotel with the sofa winding up in the kitchen, broken glass everywhere and lots of things missing.Then there is this Parties, prostitution, nudity: Arizona Senate goes after Airbnb and VRBO rentalshttps://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legi...Booming growth in rentals"Many homeowners across the state testified at legislative hearings because they feel that vacation rentals are harming their neighborhoods.Data from the Denver-based research firm AirDNA shows the Airbnb market has exploded in Arizona during the past five years.In late 2014, Phoenix only had 687 properties for rent listed on Airbnb, and only 245 of them were rented even one night in December of that year.By March of this year, that number had boomed to 4,224 listed properties.Eighty percent of Phoenix Airbnb listings are for the entire home, and the listed properties were filled 83% of the month for an average daily rate of $247 for those renting as an entire home.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each don’t cover.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Insurance can cover being stupid, intent to cause harm is not, why I don't beat on folks, LOL Don't mean burning down my rentals, or as to insurance fraud, but something dumb you did intentionally isn't necessarily the type of matter to be excluded.

@Susan Maneck  Katrina harmed SoJAC  you had a flood of refugees from New Oreleans that displaced what was a nice owner occ area and nice solid rental area.. you can correlate that event to the problems that SoJac has had post recessionMadison county was the northern most county that qualified for Go zone.

I recently went through a whole cat rescue thing, and what the rescue people said was a no cat policy really does more harm than good.  

Landlord will not be liable for any harm, injury, death, or sickness to any unauthorized animal.

You will want to offset this risk somehow.Any advice given without knowing your personal risk tolerance is meaningless at best and possibly harmful.  

There is no harm to you in sending out unnecessary 1099s.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.