Thanks for the great tips Michael!

The northern CA RE market Tanked and I mean tanked ( we all have short memories and like to think CA never suffers degraded equities).

@Conte Cuttino careful finding a freelancer on sites like fiverr or somethings up work.

Be careful. 

thing is the Fed , whatever they did, is always considered as mistake :) and whatever the Fed did, the market doesn't care anymore.

If you plan to keep it long term, make sure to take care of plumbing issues beforehand. 

Any tips/pros and cons on where to invest which will provide good cashflow?

I don't care for it, but it's part of their business model and you will be refunded less appraisal cost if they don't close. 

Keyword alerts are huge, had no idea, thanks for the tip!

From most OOS investors I am speaking to this is where most of the attention is, so be prepared for competition - seems that this forum was revived from the dead but to answer the original question with a few practices you can manage the air-bnb yourself to get higher occupancy, I would recommend educating yourself on tricks for the platform those will make the biggest difference - definitely helps having someone take care of your air-bnb account and for completely hands off investing do that but just previewing/welcoming who comes in can be done remotely in a professional manner I have seen it done in multiple states.