STR while being remote

[Maria Matthew]

Hello all! 

My husband and I have house hacked our house, we made it 2 units, we lived in one portion and Airbnb'd the other which was great because we were able to clean and manage onsite. Now we are exploring traveling full time and managing remotely. 

I feel like we can manage remotely, but being the control freak that I am.... I am so worried about cleaners not showing up, and not being there to make sure every thing is ok and up to our standards. I have set us up with remote locks from Yale so the guests get codes, have a handyman that we trust on out team, upgraded our outside cameras, and are interviewing our cleaning team and doing all the things to prep us for doing this remote. 

I would love to hear from other STR owners is this is a normal fear and what you do to mitigate as much as possible! Thank you in advance

[JD Martin]

Quote from @Maria Matthew:

Hello all! 

My husband and I have house hacked our house, we made it 2 units, we lived in one portion and Airbnb'd the other which was great because we were able to clean and manage onsite. Now we are exploring traveling full time and managing remotely. 

I feel like we can manage remotely, but being the control freak that I am.... I am so worried about cleaners not showing up, and not being there to make sure every thing is ok and up to our standards. I have set us up with remote locks from Yale so the guests get codes, have a handyman that we trust on out team, upgraded our outside cameras, and are interviewing our cleaning team and doing all the things to prep us for doing this remote. 

I would love to hear from other STR owners is this is a normal fear and what you do to mitigate as much as possible! Thank you in advance

 Common fear. I worried about the same thing and to make it worse this is my own personal vacation home. It's been a non-issue. We are 650 miles away and have a basic manager, meaning they arrange the cleaners and deal with emergencies if one comes up and that's about it. We have backup cleaners with another company and good relations with our neighbors (full-timers) if we really got in a jam.