I live close and that’s not a problem but any advice on n how to handle it?  

BTW, how do you plan to handle:1) Finding tenants and doing showings?

@Austin Wood Yeah I Ozon my units between tenants if the last person smelled

I'm looking at condos that are part of hotels/resorts, for occasional personal use (I travel a lot and need a place to come back to), and to have STR income when I'm away.

I could talk about this for 10 minutes straight and it's a pretty personal decision with positives and negatives to each.

Quote from @Melissa Rivera: When a tenant is late, your policy should be that payments must be in full and with a money order or cashiers check.I would contact the tenant and tell them you will not accept or cash the personal check.

It's NOT to "sell" a person on renting, NO, it's to just get them to click on it that's it, HOOK EM IN, get em to open the listing(C) REEL EM IN!   

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Personal assets/liabilities:Primary Residence: Have less than 20% equity in this, rest is owned by bank at high interest rate close to 7%.

Thanks Linda Weygant have you personally done a cost seg on an SFR/STR before?