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17 February 2025 | 40 replies
.: Quote from @David Shaun: January marks the 13th anniversary of the purchase of my first rental property.
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8 February 2025 | 12 replies
You end up with Hotel Quality sheets / soaps for the cost of Amazon or even less.
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13 February 2025 | 17 replies
Think an outdoor shower, fire pit, and durable, easy-to-clean furniture that can handle wear and tear.5️⃣ Special Occasion Travelers – Whether it’s a honeymoon, birthday, or anniversary, these guests are looking for a memorable, "Instagrammable" stay.
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6 February 2025 | 18 replies
We leave a starter set of essentials like laundry pods, toilet paper, paper towels, trash bags, dish pods and soap, etc and then we rotate out local goods.
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18 January 2025 | 16 replies
That stopped when I stopped using third-party cleaners, but I also started to only leave enough for the stay.I use a small Dawn hand dish liquid that I fill between guests and larger hand soap dispensers in the bath and kitchen that I fill between guests.
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14 January 2025 | 4 replies
By all means give them a note on how to use all of the appliances (eg clean out the lint trap on the drier after each load, do not use dish soap in a dishwasher, change the furnace filter regularly, etc).
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13 January 2025 | 30 replies
Let's see how it goes when the one year anniversary comes.But in general what you are seeing is very common.
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16 January 2025 | 6 replies
Later payments if after the one year anniversary would be at CapitalGain rates.
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16 January 2025 | 19 replies
So every month we have a member of our team reach out to investors to check in and see if they have questions, wish them a happy anniversary for investing and just check in…..Over the past few months we have had multiple investors panic on calls noting “please don’t tell me my investment is gone” (NOTE as we mention above not purpose of call), as several have noted they cannot take another complete loss on investment.
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13 February 2025 | 123 replies
Although i do think there is more money to be made in RE than selling soap.