What if you get into the market and absolutely end up hating running a short-term rental?

Melanie is spot on.I used to manage and operate vaction rental and STRs in Central Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe.

BP has various tools to help you analyze your deals (rentals, flips, wholesale, etc). : https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators7.

This brings into question everything he's told you on his rental application.  

Depreciation Acceleration: The standard depreciation for residential rental property is spread over 27.5 years.

Now it's a long term rental with under market rent which still nets 40% annual cash on cash return.

Avery hooked me up with some contacts for cleaners and such and @Lucas Carl walked me through the day to day operations of running my rental.  

I am trying to decide between MN Property Nerds and Twin Cities Leasing for managing my long term rental in St Paul Minnesota.This is an out of state investment for me, and I also need help with tenant placement.

What documents do they require, what credit scores do they allow, how do they verify previous rental history, etc.?

But when I started doing the numbers on potential rentals I realized they weren't going to meet my goals.