Amateur investor/full time agent here. 

There are short-term rental management companies that can help with that.One that I work with in Michigan covers the entire state and can advise on local short-term rental regulations or regulations that may be on the way, they can give you an analysis of the demand for short-term rentals in that area, nightly rates in that area, monthly occupancy percentage, and projected monthly income.They also let you choose the level of service you would like from them from full service to minimal.To your success!

If you track listings a full lap around the calendar, you get a real idea of the revenue comps in an area.

I would guess you need to have someone full time for atleast three months to start getting anywhere.

Which, of course, is unfair because you only took $70k of depreciation deductions but have to recapture the full $100k.

A property with only one full bathroom will be more valuable with a downstairs powder room or basement half bathroom.

My question to y'all good folks: Do you know of, or can you recommend, a company or brokerage that deals in property management in California that I could work for full-time and learn everything there is to know? 

He is a full-time W-2 healthcare worker that makes about 72k yr. 

Beautiful 2 bedroom 2 full bath cabin at Gatlinburg Falls Resort in Gatlinburg, TN. 

I am assuming you did a full renovation, so the SFH property is now turnkey.