I'm always willing to have a conversation to help new investors learn from my experiences, to hopefully avoid the pitfalls of buying your first property. 

Diving deeper.. check who’s on their team, how they structure their deals, and whether you’re comfortable with how the profit splits work.

I had a very pleasant phone conversation with Bob (SVP of Praxis) a few days ago and his knowledge and approach was aligned with how I operate.

Listening to YouTube big shots that have great advice on professional ways to handle problematic guests ( most are great but everyone will get bad apples), staying at the property when you have an open window of time and actually get the guest experience (this is critical), and looking at your click thru and conversion rates to get a good baseline.There is way more work to running an STR than a LTR.

So, I DON'T trust my ability to determine someone's character based on a few minute casual conversation and I DO trust my ability to manage even difficult tenants. 

We see it all the time with the conversations on what cars/vehicles folks drive :) here in BP there is a badge of honor to drive a 20 year old 250k mile car/truck :) Myself I saw my dad do some of this although he never got to the utra wealthy stage by a long shot but made good money in RE however it was not until he bought old style timeshare in Maui that he would finally take a vacation..

I’d love to hear more about your strategies and how we might work together.Looking forward to the conversation!

About year 2010 it was purchased by the present owner and in conversations, he knew about it but did nothing.

@Dan Grove I would like to know how this conversation turned out.It seems you have a lender willing to do 70-80% and be in 1st position. 

Then tell us the nature of your remaining questions and concerns as to each remaining aspect, so people can have intelligent, focused, SHORT, conversations with you on each issue you present.