Running a successful STR comes down to 3 Ps: pics, people & pricing.1) Decorate your house nicely & pay a professional photographer to take some amazing pics2) Hire amazing people - cleaners, handyman, recruit some neighbors to help fill in the gaps, & self-manage or hire an offshore VA to manage the property if you'd rather make yourself rich instead of making a local property manager rich (more on that here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/... )3) Price fiercely to maximize profits not occupancy (they're not the same thing).

The owner/landlord who actively recruits quality tenants and manages the property to the contract is the person who you want.Congrats on your soon-to-be new acquisition. 

Advertise to recruit a lot of prospective tenants and then narrow down the ideal candidate through the vetting process.

My story involves saying yes to a recruitment / transfer of a w2 and putting a flip project on a back burner and then going through financial hell because of it.  

Because a person who can bring value, having command on (a) how to recognize a deal (b) getting a deal (c) setting up a proficient team of pro's (d) managing such deal (e) recruiting all the resources necessary (f) pivoting through the stages from acquisition, renovation, monetization (g) tenant placement.......

About a year ago, my cousin tried to recruit me to join her as a Real Estate Agent, and gave me a book to read "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent". 

After that when recruiters called about the burbs, I didn't even care about the position or the pay, I would immediately decline.  

Several people I know keep trying to recruit me to join RENATUS which costs $20,000 (whoa!) 

The course is non-affiliated with any particular broker and they host several recruiting events to match grads with brokers. 

Working in software myself, I can speak from the experience of getting hit up my recruiters that many small-to-midsize companies (beyond Google, Uber, Facebook) that aren't on everyone's radar are already here or in the process of setting up offices.