It's very lucrative and also requires some leg work to make the relationships.

If you ask the manager to justify a fee and he starts hemming and hawing, move on or require them to remove the fee.

I'm not trying to rip into the work and expense you've done, but for not much more per night, I can get something really great with more bedrooms across the street in Championsgate, Windsor or Solara.I'll jump in about the grill too, that's way too much, especially since your title says "Pool & BBQ", but I have to spend extra to get the BBQ part.

At the end of the year, it is super easy to reconcile expenses and to be able to do an easy audit for performance purposes.  

I would just add that some of those lower priced, cash-flow areas will also come with more intensive management requirements.  

The NOLA rental market, especially for the more expensive neighborhoods like the one my rental is in, has been slow.

By living in NY or having property there you most likely have nexus which requires you to register as a foreign LLC.

Look into the requirements for a small claims case.

I lived in Boston, which was far too expensive.

However, I have been using stessa to track my expenses and generate income sheets for tax time.