I can't afford to gamble. 

If you're renting to traveling nurses for 30-90 days they expect utilities are coved and in your name... they are looking for convenience.

That seems a bit harder to toss away for convenience.

The checkbook control is mainly for convenience, and also to be open to other non-liability assets down the road.Would you care to mention which of the specialized firms you think are worth looking at?

So it’s a little gamble that’s taking here as it cost extra as 700 per month around 8.4K per year from my pocket .

I make about ~$60-75K/year (bonus dependent) as a market research analyst focused primarily on the regulated US online gambling industry. 

I've been considering Temecula for house hacking, the location is convenient I just haven't done any research into multifamily or the market for renting a room in a single family.

investing driving distance is usually just a false sense of comfort. there's really not much of a difference between buying 2h away and 1000 miles away, especially if you're not a property manager or contractor by trade. investing somewhere that's truly a great market to invest in, is more important than convenience.- regarding LTR MTR STR, owning each type of rental comes with a different workload/lifestyle.

I think the bottom line is you pay for convenience of any kind.

I like the idea of doing all your research online for the convenience efficiency and the ability to keep records seamlessly .