They are there on time reliably, do a good job managing inventory/off site laundry, and generally do a good job cleaning overall.

I'm considering purchasing a condo or a small SFH in the Oceanside/Carlsbad area as an investment property and renting it out on a short term rental site like AirBNB. 

This question came from the Bigger Pockets Facebook Group, and I thought it was a good one.“Does anyone know of a website or resource that reviews Real Estate Syndication sponsors or offerings? For crowdsource investm...

Some hosts I’ve worked with have asked the seller to co-host temporarily while transitioning the listing to the new owner.

To help support that avatar, try and have on-site parking and ideally a place where a large work truck can be parked without issue (think fully decked out F-350). 

Many of the OTAs and lead gen sites, like Furnished Finder, are pushing credit card payments. 99.9% of the time I get a message from FF saying 'your tenant would prefer to pay by credit card so activate Stripe now!' 

My Team hosts 12+ Free meetups each quarter in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, under the name Simplified Real Estate Meetups.

Like others have stated, their price is not always the best especially if you use cashback sites and/or search for coupon codes for other sites.

I just reached out to a host on Airbnb who has properties I want to try and model mine after (based on AirDNA data).

They host several meet ups in the Seattle and Tacoma area.