New Guy Looking @ House Hacking Vacation Rentals in Central, PA

[Adam Kalnas]

Hi nice to meet you.  I've been binging on the PodCast, and I think I'm ready to take some action here.  

Here's my situation:

I may need to purchase a property within 30 mins of Lititz, Pa.  Our family is not going to permanently going to relocate here, but we will need to frequent the area enough that it's beginning to make sense to purchase a 2nd home.  

Our goal would be to make sure the house that we are not currently staying in would be used as an air bnb.  I'm not sure that the residence we are currently staying in is optimal for an AirBnb.  Cranberry Twp is a suburb of Pittsburgh and doesn't seem to have much of a short term rental market.  We'd be keeping the property because we love it and hope to live in it for part of the year.

My target area is:

I'm guessing that Hershey, PA is the hot-spot for short-term vacation rentals.  I welcome other's opinions about this.

Target Property:

Single family home.  3/4 BR home.  

Interested in meeting:

- Anyone local investors, especially if you have an AirBnB going on.  

- Would need to build a team to help me manage property while I'm living in Pittsburgh.  I'm willing to do most the heavy lifting to get everything started, but will need to find people to help when I'm 4 hours away.

My questions are:

- How can I tell if my current house is going to be good for an AirBnb?

- How can I find investor friendly or airbnb host friendly agent in this area?  Should I go find a local meetup?  Any central PA presences online here?

- Need to learn more about this local area.

- Need to learn more about how to analyze deals.  I think I've found the right place for me to do more digging.  So much more for me to go look through.  I'm off for now to continue learning!