If experience is your concern, you can easily partner up with another experienced investor in your area to help balance the risk out. 

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

with 50k you can easily find a duplex that you could get into for 5% and start your journey.Best of luck

You should get more nights in the smaller property that can still easily accommodate a family traveling, but is still inexpensive enough to make sense to solo travelers.Cleaning fee impact: Don't you collect this back from your guests?

I have an outdoor pool that easily have 1k+ people using it every season and I never had single complaint due to the water quality.

You can easily do this on a spreadsheet and it will take less time to track than find and learn a new software.

It’s a blessing (the reason you found real estate in the first place) and a curse (you probably get distracted easily on what asset class to focus on).

I’m about to tell you about a deal that could have easily fallen apart, but instead turned into a $200k profit after a lengthy eviction process.

People who have service dogs (or horses, as these are the only 2 service animals) that are genuine have no issue disclosing that on the front end and can answer the 2 questions easily - is the animal necessary for a disability, and what specific tasks has the dog (or horse, if you're getting one of those) been trained to perform? 

This could easily cost you $10’s of thousands if you plan to stay in the home 5+ years when you return.