Nothing in Tampa, although I did consider investing there in recent years.One pain point is going to be doing a remote closing if you want to do that.For Florida you will need wet signed papers for part of the transaction (title transfer), so you'll need to get a US notarization from the embassy, and then physically mail stuff to the US (overnight air mail).

I deal with development opportunities where I can and synergies between local businesses.Then I have my operations manager who handles most of the day-to-day management of the properties, and they manage some of our contractors and managers.Our model is a little different than large parks because we have regional managers that cover multiple communities vs a single one.The pain point right now is mainly having consistently qualified contractors and filling vacant spaces as quickly as we can.

A painful learning experience, to say the least. 

well i lived through it.. painful as it was.Gap lending is far to risky for almost anyone end of story.. totally agree.the only time it works is with some decent cross collateral and or you have a substantial relationship with the client and have done LOTS of deals with them for many years. 

Not to mention the paperwork pain involved with each claim Any thoughts on just not having any insurance at all, or just some sort of liability and really high deductible ?

We worked out a buyout from it but it was painful.

It is also kinda a pain in the butt to setup where they can send codes with the August Yale locksAnyone  have experience sending automated codes with the Encode on AIrbnb?

You can very well avoid the pain and headache when it comes to maintaining it.

Iḿ doing well and can absorb so much more than they average American, and still all the rate increases was painful.

Maintenance is a pain point for a STR host!