You're either doing it yourself, spending a little money and hiring/managing someone else to do it, or you don't do it and let the leads rent from someone else.

My wife and I also invest in STRs and I spend a lot of time working over the best place to buy our next property.I've been looking at Packwood recently for a client.  

With less experienced or just poor planning operators, it isn't uncommon that they spend years distributing all the cash out to the owners, and then the time comes for a multi million dollar refresh to maintain the hotel brand, and no one wants to cough up the money back into the entity.

Spend the $25,000 on a deal not a consultant.

Also, the idea separating them is so you don't accidentally spend them and then no way to pay it back when the time comes.Some states if you don't refund the security deposit within X amount of days, the penality is that you will have to pay back the security deposit x2. 

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

My markup is always lower than the original lender's because I don't spend money advertising during the Super Bowl, my president doesn't have a corporate jet, and we don't have layers of management we need to pay.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

If it wasn't housing, food, or transportation, I didn't spend money on it.