Ability to make Electronic Fund Transfers to my investors monthly,and pay my vendors. 2.

Can also check the vendor list with your local REI, attend meetings and see who people are using.  

Was curious how it works to use multiple services like AirBnb, VRBO, etc. How do you keep the calendar straight so that two services don't book a customer on the same day?

He tells me to make the vendors, or workers they can wait for their pay.

@Alicia Marks thanks for the mention.I always recommend the same method when trying to identify good vendors - get your referral from a fellow investor. 

In addition, they are looking at stepping up enforcement of "illegal" STRs in the city by fining any vendors who take a payment from an illegal STR.

Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, attach a fake invoice.

Find the value the property has to offer you to make it worth your time, then make your offer to the Seller.Fun story: My boss at my day job (VP of Info Tech at a Fortune 500 company) always negotiated with vendors the same way.  

I think we have just over 40 hours in our last one not including attorney review and the 3rd party vendors time who we use to put it all together. 

How does one know which ones are legitimate and which ones are scam? I saw comments about one hard money lender in particular and they were very bad reviews.