Evidence of cats: smell, urine damage, scratching damage on your woodwork and on their furniture, pet hair (look under refrigerator and range and in hvac ducts and filters), broken window blinds, kitty litter box, cat food.... the cat itself! 

Food for thought.

That is somewhat akin to saying restaurants do not have a "business model" because some restaurants serve terrible food.  

On a financial level, it will help me open doors to long term goals I have planned, such as entering the restaurant/food industry, product development, and traveling.

Substantial services are additional services that you'd do for a guest while they're at the property, such as cleaning (during their stay), tours, providing food, accessible amenities, and subscription services available at the rental. 

Some improvements that i would add1_3rd picture should be the first, it helps see from inside out2_ describe what people see in each picture3_ Dress the table so people can imagine having dinner or beaksfast. no need for food but help people picture themselves in each picture4_Replace the table for a bigger one5_Get profesional photos , you can also add pictures at night next to the pool6_ a Great description is key: describe what you have in the house,this is a bit poor at the moment. size of the bed, size of the TV, cable system, internet, fully kitchen, games.

Fear feeds off attention, so you need to starve it of it's "food" by shifting your focus on the positives.

Bar & Grill has  the best Mexican food in the area, and of course they carry Muscle Vodka!

Id love to cook some food at one of the events and chat REI around the grill.

I nearly went with a firm in Kentucky or North Carolina - can't remember - found them on Upwork - and had planned to fly out to meet them - but I circled back to one other local contact one more time - we met got on the same page and they are within walking distance of my office and readily reachable with a few employees in the office so I should be good with them for sometime.I use a # of things that automate stuff so there is no point in wasting human labor and time on it from ordering groceries online, deliver what we can then curbside pickup the rest - ordering all of our supplies online, empowering kitchen staff to take charge of the food ordering etc - there were a million inefficiencies we had - still plenty left but got the lions share taken care of.Use a service in Cali to have our bills mailed to - they open the mail scan them in and then I forward them to Bill.com - I click a few buttons and can pay the bills which are then synced with QBO - receipts can go to Hubdoc and payroll is outsourced to the bookkeeper as well - so for the $18k which inc payroll and software fees there was a # of moving parts going on - I could just tell with the automation she wasnt doing much at all due to very little responsiveness the past 6-9 mos and no reports, large swaths of time to have books reconciled among other things - I could do it all myself frankly now but I dont want to worry or stress of it - it's worth it to farm it out.I stayed away from in house as well as the prior owner had an in house person and I later found out his books were all screwed up - I was also sold something that was not entirely accurate due to a few other things - but it's fine - we found the problems and fixed them.