You likely won't get Short term but some people use a mix of airbnb and furnished finder. 

If you don't have any leads or don't know where to start here are a couple suggestions: ask brokers who people use for debt, find a mortgage broker as they have access to different buckets of capital, use a website like CoStar to look at closed transaction over the last 12 months and see who they used for debt.

There are many people that make money in real estate in CA.  

It could make sense to bring in an investment partner.Another option, since it sounds like it's a handful of smaller properties, is to get a group of people together and divide and conquer the units rather than having one master portfolio with LPs and GPs.Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss strategy; I'm happy to help.

Because it shouldn’t require Wi-Fi to let people into the house, so as long as the lock is letting people in, it’s mostly OK to deal withBottom line: in the freezing cold weather, is it simply that you can’t remotely connect for a time period?

The people who are selling are interested in being a part of a JV on the development, and my friend found someone who is interested in the property.

We have discussed selling the property and rolling it into a multi-family but again feel like we may be trading a fairly hands off property with good cash flow for one that may be a bit more labor intensive and only yield marginally better performance.Any advice on how to expand our rental portfolio/maximize its performance is greatly appreciated!   

I always try to treat people with respect and that includes everyone working for me.

Mine was in such a rough area I couldnt find people to handle it. 

I listed it on FB marketplace as a Long Term Rental while it was under contract just to get the feelers out, and I got a lot of responses from people who wondered if I'd take Section 8.The house is in an area with pockets of Section 8 housing.