While you should take the first well-qualified applicant, you also need to keep in mind that you'll be making construction noise, so for example, your prospective tenant needs to know that in case they work nights.

Then there was the peyote church leader who seemed really nice and cool at first but then started growing mushrooms and peyote in his closet, and when I went out of town he hosted all night bonfire peyote parties in the yard playing bongos all night, then stabbed another house mate who came home hammered drunk and asked the peyote church parishioners to be quiet at 4am or so and they both ended up in jail and I had to evict them both while they were in jail.

So, we agreed and amended the lease to be paid every Friday afternoon / night. 

I have 2 million umbrella on all my properties and it makes me sleep well at night. 

We both side hustled on the week nights / weekends.

So my wife and I just landed a nightly rental approved condo in a resort area.

STR's require immaculate staging, marketing, and appeal to younger, high-earning audiences who will happily pay $300-500 / night for a "unique experience".

Middle of the night call from tenant-Tenant: "The people upstairs are fighting!

Make it part of the rental nightly rate.

I have a strong work ethic and don't shy away from hard physical labor thanks to my granddad making me carry pack of shingles up on roofs at 6am during my summer when I was 11 years old, my pay was dinner that night lol.