An HOA is a widely used form of community popularized by the developer.  

I’ve looked at Zillow and look at the school scores close by, look at google maps but other than that is their some tool I can leverage to help sped up this process?

I got a 5 month window from them in part because they don't want the owner to start advertising it for rent or having potential renters go by the home.  

My thoughts:Damage Protection:Goods: The total cash paid by the guest at the time of the booking is less.

Did you rent by the room or did you rent the house to all three of them? 

We’re eager to learn and would greatly appreciate any advice, resources, or connections you can offer.

Particularly on competitive offers, previously most offers would have had similar mechanics, in that the seller was paying both parties brokers.

The Homeready First program offers a $5000 grant for primary homes.

I do not know your tax situation, but I know most tax professionals are fairly busy and normally do not guarantee they will be able to file by the original timeline. 

Our cleaner sends invoices at the end of the month for all of the month's cleans, and we pay them via ACH (used to do Zelle until we got big enough that we started getting hit by Zelle transaction limits).This works great for the properties we own.