I am taking a trip today to Poconos, and was wondering if you can provide some guidance: 1) what areas would you recommend to look at for properties with good STR potential? 

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Again, I don't make a special trip for that.

Part of the reason for this choice is her and her family love Disney and would like to use this property every so often for trips there (though I think this is more of a secondary concern).

Since we’re already doing all the tasks that a property Manager would do (operations, rent collection, finding tenants, accounting, etc), My thought was to set up an LLC as a property management company (owned 50/50 by the 2 of us) and charge a monthly PM Fee to the estate as a way to get money out without tripping estate rules. 

For a VERY SUBSTANTIAL GAIN, I would consider brief out of town trips, but this out of town investing seems to require a lot more than that.We each have to decide. 

But I made a special trip to Houston beginning of the year; just to find out & experience on the level of competitiveness, learn the area, drive the properties & strategy to win in Houston auctions.

And if you claim 100% usage for the vehicle, you better not ever use it for personal use, even when the Beemer is in the garage, or you get tripped up in an audit.

This time I sent tenant $65 to pay for trip charges as was not available.

After back and forth with the technician and 2 trips to the home, I finally have the guy fixing the A/C today on Friday. 7 days after it broke.In the meantime, the tenants have been complaining daily and I have been telling them that the technician keeps postponing his date to fix since we needed to order a part.