Driving 300 miles to deal with an inspection is probably more than you would pay in monthly management.You can start by going to www.narpm.org to search their directory of managers.

Unfortunately, there isn't a meetup closer to Burlington.

Originally posted by @Angel Latimer:Hello everyone looking to purchase my first STR I currently live in the Poconos in the Marshalls creek area and I've been in the market for about 4 months and researching STR for about 2 yrs and I pretty much know how it works and Im ready to get on this wave being that this market is 12 yrs old and has room for me but I do see a lite saturated market in the business it self in certain areas but again I'm trying to get a piece of the pie so my 2 targets are Poconos and Florida im a little hesitant with Poconos because having low occupancy rates during the winter months because theres been a drout with snow or else we would probably be in the 60-75% percentile  where we would probably be looking around 200 days out of the yr of rentals which im ok with that now Florida they looking at a higher percentile due to the fact that they pretty much booked all yr round so please any experienced  advise in any of these 2 states from a markets point of view im all ears or eyes to be exact thank you very much I don't know anyone who's getting anywhere near 60-75% occupancy in the Poconos; most people get closer to 20%.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/530/topics/711235-vacation-rentals-in-the-poconos

It time for you to do a inspection so might as well give notice, have locksmith change lock and charge her for it as you suggest.

Added a new roof, termite treatment/inspection and then on to paying off the original owner after refi.

Terrell Garren all insurance seems to be partly a scam anymore, with them expanding beyond emergencies to covering less emergent issues but not doing it well, I wish there would be more maintenance plans that inspect and catch issues early than cover failure but I guess that is what I have to set up for myself.

Probably closer to 8%.You're forgetting Insurance and Management (10%)It's unlikely that you'd be able to create $20k of value with only $5k of renovation. 

Inspection Period after accepted offer?

EM is a larger amount and refundable due to inspection/financing clauses, etc. 

I work for a local FD and when we do inspections we ensure each pull station is operable,able to be reset and the alarm bell activates.