Most guests with ample notice will be somewhat flexible, however you should have a contingency plan in place for when you have a guest that is not. 

We have in effect done a pocket veto as we have not responded, but I plan on responding indicating we need above LTR rates otherwise we can just switch to LTR increasing our revenue due to reduced expenses.  

My lender packaged and sold my mortgage, and when I called the new servicer to inquire about a HELOC/ Home Equity Loan they told me I wasn't eligible because of my short ownership duration.I am planning to pay for most of the improvements with cash I have on hand from my W2 job, but I want to get something set up in case of an emergency repair/ use towards other investment opportunities.

Planning on enforcing fines and using a camera to monitor the area.

(Currently own a 4 unit rental and 8 acres planned for development in the near future).I have just received my closing disclosure and boy is it ugly.

You can still find cashflowing properties in the STR areas people have been investing in, butit is just hard to find "great cashflowing" properties producing +25% cash on cash returns when planning accordingly for capex.

There's 3 floors of old apartments upstairs we have an architect working on a plan right now.

I plan on updating the whole property and moving into one of the units. 

You could do cash for keys, to just end the lease mutually, or even see if they were interested in doing a payment plan for the rest of their lease. 

We had changed everything in our plan, I mean everything, and we had to press for an absolutely insane price, knowing we would have to accept whatever comes closest.