If you're concerned, hire a property management or rental company to handle everything for you.Short-term rental insurance is typically 2-3x long-term rental insurance.

Your property management team is hired so you do not have to worry about communicating with the tenants.

However, if it can be shown that it was sold to someone other than that, no commission is owed.In WA if the seller hires a second listing agent and it sells to someone who saw it through the first agent's advertising, they don't owe any extra commission.

Things like paint and flooring are certainly doable if you hire professionals who can get the work done in a timely manner.

If you want to learn the workings of property management, then you could hire one for a bit to see how they manage the property.

Rehab investing should anticipate months wait for a good contractor to rehab the home, or for a quicker hire, shoddy work.

We hired someone to paint the countertops.

I would start with hiring a local Real Estate Agent that is familiar to work with foreign nationals.

You will want to consider hiring a CPA to do your taxes correctly.

I hired an attorney that was recommended to be very knowledgeable on evictions.