Keep the other two on notice that they're next and try to negotiate a mutual agreement on when they vacate so you can spread the vacancies out.I don't know why you would even consider cash for keys.

Even before you have that, you or a real estate agent can make contact directly with the occupants and try to come to an agreement for them to vacate the property.

*Section four requires a landlord to, in good faith and according totheir resources and abilities, take reasonable and customary steps tore-rent a unit if the tenant vacates before the end of the lease term.

It it were not, then it would be called a fee of some sort.In addition in CA, after a tenant vacates a rental, the landlord is required to send an itemized statement within 21 days detailing what expenses, if any, were deducted from your security deposit as well as the balance of the security deposit.

Do you vacation to the same spot every year, or have family / friends living somewhere else?  

. : Car insurance rate, cable bill, kids extra curricular activities, vacations, credit card bills, restaurant outings.

I’m also a broker and use that money for vacations, additional investments, and whatever else might come up in the future.

I’ve been on Bigger Pockets for a bit now and I don’t here much on Vacation Rentals.

I have 24 locations, (27 units) most of my peers thought i was nuts, but im 44 and consider myself retired, and they are all working with no end in sight,  but in their mind rentals are way too much work, I dont know I maybe spend 2 hours a month managing my managers, I can go on vacation when ever I want and can conduct business from wherever, Im going to Iceland coming up and none of my tenants will know im gone, heck most of my tenants dont know who I am, or that I own the house they live in.  

I would find a place that I know, maybe somewhere you go on vacation, spent time in growing up, have family in.