We completely overhauled our operations a year ago because as we grew in size, we found we were not consistently and uniformly delivering the personal experience we desired.

Also, how do you handle the signing of waivers outside of the Airbnb platform?

Don't know where your rental property is, but in Florida, we have a statute that deals with death of last remaining tenant and the procedures to follow to allow the landlord to take possession of the property and dispose of the tenants personal property.

All our meetups that I personally attend. 

I am in Indiana as well, in our situation, it did not make any difference on our taxes if we left it in our personal name or transferred into an LLC. 

Have a calculator that shows this as well.What is boils down to 99% of the time is #3 and that persons ego / fear of giving someone else $.

Maybe SF handles it differently than the East Bay cities.

I was confused about how to file taxes and separate tax deductibles from personal and business filing, as a H1B holder.

If a person is already investing in the U.S. and then invests overseas they dilute their cross leveraging potential.  

I have 3 VAs that make cold calls for me and I found that because I had started doing my own cold calling I was able to train them and advise them properly on how I wanted them to handle specific scenarios.