For our guest arriving today, we contacted them and offered to put them up in a hotel. 

And fly to the area multiple times - if you can't afford to do this I would say someone isn't ready to invest OOS (any potential property issues are going to cost more than a flight, hotel stay and a rental car.

In the end we pitched seller financing, which I thought they'd never go for, but we ended up working something out on pretty favorable terms.I'm interested to connect with others who are doing boutique hotels / STR hotels, whatever you want to call it. 

I have always wanted to build unique structures using my creativity while also gaining cash flow using my hotel management background.

Quote from @Carly Cohen: Kristi-I read your book, I love what you’re doing with apartments and hotels.

A few of the hotels there have where you buy/own the actual unit and you become part of the "rental pool" & get monthly dividends based on how well the hotel does..this one sounds similar.

Got to the hotel on our travel, with good connection so we can look back at the video history.  

Which makes sense because I can still be in the same ballpark price wise as a hotel to pick up those 2 guest stays (presumably mostly couples, but not always), with the added value of everything a SFR provides. 

They pulled the trigger on getting a house because they found themselves constantly paying for costly hotels when visiting and having to pay both of our rent.

This is a cheap rebrand of Google Hotel Ads.