My biggest hurdle has been securing financing to work on multiple projects simultaneously.  

You would choose the tenant so you would have a decent amount of security on who is living there.

Combining these strategies often gives investors the best balance of cost, simplicity, and security.

Consider all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

Like the others said, I don't see how VRBO would even know you had a direct booking, or what would make them think they're privy to commission on a booking they didn't secure.

I can have separate bank accounts, debit cards, security deposit accounts etc. and now with new features like automatic recurring transfers things are even easier and time efficient 

In order to secure the property, we had to offer 10K over asking with the hope it wouldn't appraise.

Things to consider: daily internal operations, external branding and operations, lending, in addition to inside out *legal protection and outside in** legal protection, privacy/anonymity/identity protection and security...Prevention measures at different levels, preventing the attack from being initiated vs preventing the attack (lawsuit) being successful vs reducing the damage of a successful attack.... there are many elements and I see people pick one and argue about it without looking at the whole

@Dylan Robinson I've got buddies that used their VA loan to secure big beautiful plexes in DC.

I continue to pad my social security contributions full-time with the hopes of maximizing my retirement benefits.