The Go Daddy vacation rental template was good enough for me and super easy.

Is just using a service like Northwest Registered Agent good enough?

I never think of my rentals as "good enough" for "those people" which is a phrase I hear from other landlords.- Most importantly, treat your tenants like you would want to be treated so they love you as a landlord.

I used Flipper Force for a while and liked it as well, but the accounting features aren't good enough so it wasnt worth the money for me just to use the project management portion when ClickUp does it well. 

I must say for buying a property in San Francisco, you will need at least a good liquidity of six figures to start, whereas areas like Oakland, Daly City, San Bruno and some regions in the East Bay provide entry points that are easier to buy into and rent in the first deal that is good enough to offset the cost.Good luck!

Otherwise may be easiest to keep Google thermostats for nowI also am trying to move to non subscription cameras which are likely good enough for STRsI love waveapps and use it in another business!

I really depends on the specific property and location.Get a good enough deal and you can cash flow. 

It eats up too much of my and my partner's time.Our rehabs have been good enough to generate a big bump in rents and cash flow, beyond our projections.That said, we have had to sink a lot of our own time & labor into the rehabs, so it is definitely an intensive investment.

The short answer is yes in my opinion.As you say the great properties in great areas are always going to do well.The "Airbnb" type properties (Ones not good enough to do well on Vrbo) are going to struggle unless they have something going for them like being close to someplace like a hospital, university or are very walkable to something interesting. 

It sounds like these were good tenants and the $1,000 charge is questionable (could fall under normal wear and tear and nobody should expect a tenant to maintain garden beds perfectly, that one is too subjective to prove they didn’t go a good enough job IMO).