From previous posts, the office sent violation to her after frequent visitor is pretty much sleeping over and not on the lease.

Hi @Ebi Amiri, if you're managing remotely and don't have a partner in the area, the most sustainable long-term solution is to hire a property manager and/or have a team of trusted pros like an agent that could help manage the property for you or handle issues when they arise.To answer your question, there are a variety of ways to find contractors and handymen.

Additionally, if you work with a broker, they will have access to a variety of lenders with different overlays that may be more giving or more conservative.

There are a wide variety of reasons someone would need or want to stay in an STR. 

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I don’t think you can go after the tenant (or lien their house they bought) if the source of it is a massive underground water leak… that topic deserves its own post with a variety of options to explore but STOP the water flow NOW

Since such a wide variety of work needed to be done, I reached out to a general contractor.  

Not to mention.. if city rules/regulations, the property owners you were subleasing from, etc were to suddenly stop allowing short term rentals (which frequently happens)... your only exit strategy is to stop arbitraging.

Something you could have them ask the water company is do they direct read the bill every month, or estimate monthly and then read less frequently?

Option 2: Condos will be easier to manage and there should be plenty of smaller (or older) units out there for under 300k in a variety of neighborhoods.