Buying a single-family home can be a great starting point for new investors to learn the ropes and property management basics.

Fences, basic landscaping, tree removal can put some nice padding into your margins as well. 

Since my bank account had no funds (I transfer them fully as soon as rent collections deposit), Baselane basically paid those refunds from their own pocket and now are coming after me to recoup them.

They're basically shooting themselves in the foot.

All of these things indicate the basic groundwork for an STR industry supported by local government, and we do expect future support to continueThe highest demand areas of the city can be found South of Veteran's Memorial Pkwy.

Basically, it took Mexico 40 years to achieve what took several times longer in Florida.

I've been told by the insurance companies/brokers that a basic Homeowner's or even a commercial policy will not do.

Our cleaning fees for the year were $40k, landscaping $2.5k, handyman $3k... all tasks that can be done by an operator and off set the loss of income from occupying the main house that brought in about $40k for 2024.My wife and I have decided that even though it makes good money, we have been in Texas for a year and we want to do something similar here and we are very much DIY people and don't want a PM company to run it to the ground.

It takes actual thought and a programmer's mind to be able to build a CRM into something that's actually effective (sure a basic person could setup a phased text message or email automation, but it's tying everything together with opportunities, automated campaign re-entry/follow-up, social media integrations/automations, etc that is the real value).

ANyway that is  my beginners guide written by a beginner but is basically what i look for.