If you don't have someone local managing your property on your behalf (like - an actual property management company, not just some guy who lives down the street), you could run into all kinds of problems, and you won't even know you have them until it's too late and the damage is done.
You'll have to pay for a property manager but you can just incorporate that into the rental fee. They can vet the potential tenants, do credit checks if you want (costs extra AFAIK), handle deposits and tourism taxes (short-term rentals get taxed, and you have to make sure the county/state gets its money). This also ensures that potential tenants know that -you- are a reliable landlord. Anyone who would let me spend a month in their personal home while they're not there, who doesn't make sure I'm not going to gut the place before I skip out of town, is not someone whose house I'd want to live in.
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