By posting a notice, you maintain control while ensuring expectations are clear and legal.By the way, I don't recommend an exact 30-day notice and then dealing with prorated rent.

During the GFC, the Obama administration took control of these entities and they have since been 100% controlled by the government. 

The Short Term Rental Secrets Podcasts and Website by Mike Sjogren is pretty great for learning a ton and hearing from big players in the market that started from nothing.https://open.spotify.com/episo...https://www.strsecrets.com/abo...

If you are investing in a distant market there should be even greater reasoning behind the investment because you have less control and therefore even greater risk no matter what anybody tries telling you. 

The state doesn’t have rent control laws, but landlords are prohibited from collecting more than one month’s rent for security deposits.

If you can network and find local players (FB groups, meetups) that could help speed it up

It gives you better control over the process and helps you really understand the market.

There are some players that operate thousands of SF homes.

“One of the scariest things that happen in the worst-case scenarios is people turn on people,” he said in one clip after listing a few such scenarios: a new, more-virulent pandemic; artificial intelligence run amok; nuclear war; or “the real war with China and Russia and cybertechnology and the Cold War.”RAD’s survivalist-camp business is in the process of gaining control of 20,000 acres of rural property across multiple sites nationwide, Mendenhall said in an interview last month with the financial blogger and stock picker Jim Woods on Woods’ podcast, Way of the Renaissance Man.But the bulk of the business’ holdings consists of residential real estate, filings show.

There was also a part of that law that enacts rent control anywhere in the state, which may affect your plans.Make sure any changes you are proposing to the contract are compliant with the "new" New York State housing laws.