If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

It is not on your typical zillow/redfin/trulia site as she said it is directly from the seller. 

There are other sites.

@Caleb Rehg  I would advise your first step is to search this site for college student rentals and student rentals and read all you can. 

Bigger Pockets is the right place to come for resources as there are plenty on the site here.

Just like the BRRR that is talked about on this site.. shoot we were doing those 30 years ago.. we just called it cash out refi.. so you take someone who just brands it and folks think is some great idea that was just created..  

dogsbite.org is a propagandist site created by a web designer who was bitten by a dog.

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. 

You can just as well get married but say you'll be back someday keeping your right to come and go, no one should care, unless you've done a lease change about your space and that you are officially exiting.If None of these supposedly agreed upon things are in a lease, then you may have a problem, and lack the grounds to enforce lease violations.

If you are using a third-party site to conduct the background checks, sometimes they have the option to send a person, a denial letter, and due to the fair credit act it may be required to send them a notice, informing them that you checked their credit and background so that they have a receipt that it was completed.