I tell more about my story and dozens of other regular rental investors (I call them small and mighty) in my new BiggerPockets book The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor. 

I use Rently for property showing for regular tenant turnover and , but I think it would work just as well for AirBNB.

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We have local Biggerpocketers meetup regularly.

I can see from your profile that you've been around the site for a couple of years, but do not post regularly.

All the auction regulars seem to know and understand this.  

It's putting a lot of faith and trust in a person that you may not know very well, and who you're not in regular contact with as to their life situation.

At the moment I'd like to be very sure I received the cash regularly without going to foreclosure.

I don't like the idea of dropping the price on a regular basis though.

v=oxH4-F1FtwAHere is how you get the calls to come in on a regular basis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?