Unfortunately, I do not have the personal funds available to support those expenses that easily.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

They can easily pay rent online, and I can track all payments in one place.

This sort of deal could go south very easily and for that reason I stayed away.What would you do? 

You can also easily diversify there.

Build yourself a Google business page, make yourself easily bookable on Airbnb (did you know that 25% of nights booked on Airbnb are for 30 day stays and more? 

Also, you have a lot of competition with Disney and Universal properties.I always stay at a Disney property to take advantage of the included transportation to easily park hop and not deal with having to drive and park.

For perspective, outside of SF you can easily get a place to rent for 2500 or so, figure another 1500 for day care.

Get one bad tenant and you could lose three years worth of cash flow very easily.2.

Facts, real world results, and human nature can't sway them because their understanding doesn't go any deeper than buzzwords and a conviction that if the whole world just thought like them then all the world's problems would be easily solved.