This hesitation is frequently tied to their personal preparedness, or lack thereof.

@Ryan StoverThe only way I see to take advantage of both environments (TX tax freedom and CA beach and weather) is to move to Texas and frequently travel to CA to vacation / business trip, but make sure to make Texas your home in all ways.

While I don't mean to sound disrespectful, I am very suspicious of the business services that frequent this forum and provide information in favor of their product/service.

Is there a brokerage you'd recommend that will provide adequate training (hands-on/ maybe let me shadow etc) as a license holder AND deal pretty frequently with investors (as I wholesale)?

In our market here in Sevier County it is frequent to see “gross rental” from VRBO/AirBnB owners including the pass throughs you mention.

If you still want to go the route of Airbnb, I would recommend these resources: Airbnb Permitting Help - Melissa Wright at STRpermit.com or Descansa PDX can help as well.If you are looking for more midterm rentals I'd look at FurnishedFinders - Create your own listing on a site frequented by traveling nurses/doctors. 

If you are looking at larger deals and generally anything maybe 30+, reaching out to the top brokers in the area frequently is the best way. 

If deal flow and deploying investor capital are your concerns, the natural converse is in what real estate investment business models are frequent/new acquisitions not an issue? 

AirDNA doesn't know how to filter these inflated prices out so I will frequently see a projection for $200,000 annually when I know that it is more along the lines of $45,000.

Unfortunately, most of the time, the Owner has to absorb the additional costs.Professional Liability Insurance, (also known as errors and omissions insurance) is frequently carried by architects to cover costs resulting from design faults.