Currently finishing up a house hack and am going to be transitioning to building my rental portfolio.

From there, you can better transition into a DIY approach

The transition of planning to executing has been a mess though.

Quote from @Nuatu Tseggai: I contributed a home recently (May 2022).Overall process was relatively smooth.

I also started with SF - doing flip projects before transitioning to MF. 

I might be reaching out once we transition to Airbnb.

If you start communicating before things get all legal, then that shows everyone in the neighborhood that you are willing to work within the regs and with the neighbors in order to fix issues.If you aren't the problem, things are smooth with your STR, then you want to convince them that they should let things continue and penalize the problem properties and not yours.My 2 cents as per usual.

One significant challenge was navigating a septic issue and transitioning the property to city sewer lines.

There are different types of sober living, transitional living homes.

If you think the mulch is somehow attracting these pests, maybe because it's wet from the sprinklers or something - perhaps swapping the mulch out for smooth rocks would help.