(Shameless plug for my wife/business partner, but she's also awesome with MTRs and has a whole YouTube channel about how to self-manage your medium-term rental.)

In addition to price you should condsider the quality of the company (AM Best rates, Insurance dept complaints, reviews,....) and the quality of the agent (do they know this type of business, how many companies do the represent, etc..)

Okay I don't do much business in California so I've never come across this before. 

You will see that they went out of business.

@Stephanie BaronCongrats on jumping into the Landlord business. 

The alternative is, do you have a co-signer or business partner?

Who knows...perhaps we can do business one day. 

You are in the STR business to make money, not to show a loss. 

While I appreciate the compliment, the situation is quite difficult because they paid way too much basing their price (and business plan) on an unobtainable reality.

This entails dedicating a significant amount of time and effort to the short-term rental business.