As a real estate agent and an investor, I am on the market daily and explore opportunities for myself and my clients.

If your going into it as just a way to make a buck, with no real passion, then every “problem” will be overwhelming, you’ll be “clock watching” waiting to take a vacation, and dealing with “tenants, toilets and banks” will be a tedious chore.  

For my MTRs, I just manually price because they have to book 30 days+ anyway, so there's no reason to change daily rates. 

Now we are preparing to file for 2023, and I was told by some STR gurus, and also read on here, that we should not be using Schedule C since we are not providing daily hospitality services.

The ones I have heard of/tested are as follows:Beyond Pricing, PriceLabs - are automated pricing toolsLodgify - is strong in website development (if you want to drive direct bookings) but from what I viewed are not as strong in the management toolsYourPorter - Cleaner communication toolOneRoofTop - decent tool set, heavy lifting, questionable sustainabilityMyVR - expensive but decent tool setBookerville - their customers love them, their technology appears to be old school (so does their name)I too am on the hunt for a solution because I want to become more passive, moving away from the daily grind of working "in" my business so I can work "on" my business. 

I am only semi-satisfied with my property manager, and considering taking over the daily management myself but would only want to do that if I have someone good to help me with filling units as they come empty.  

. - most of them perform their task and "disappear" until next time.The PMC is the only team member that has to deal with a property & tenant on a daily basis.Recommend a chat with Michael as he can refer you to all of the above.

.---- OR ----(B) Network with the REALTORS who already have done ALL that in (A), and have gotten dang-good at it, so good that they are weekly/daily sourcing potentials.

Quote from @Jerry Daily: I currently own a rental property that profits at least 15K after all deductions.

Social media folks push that they're "retired" but still run podcasts, sell courses/books/seminars, post daily content, etc... so still actively working.