I don’t like 1 year lease, and prefer month-to-month lease because I can kick out bad apples tenants anytime.

Radio and TV Tax (GEZ)This only applies to those who do not fall under the “Status of Forces Agreement”.

I look at real estate like Apple / John Deere / Disney all commodities some ay nicer dividends some have a nice run coming.

@James Wise  Per your request.Coming out of the late 1800s most of the major west coast cities that we know and love like LA  SF  PDX SEATAC were all subdivided by the same engineering firms  at least SF and Portlandia were.. this led to land speculators in the day going out into the Western deserts and other remote areas.. buying what were large land holdings , Spanish land grants and other lands that were not govmit owned.. then in the day you could simply create massive subdivisions buy doing basic surveys off of the base and meridian lines.. which all of the west is surveyed off of... this is called section land.then create these massive tracks of lots.. some were like up in the apple valley, Lancaster,  Barstow type areas mainly 5 acre tracts.. and were done on a grid pattern.. streets in ( mapped but not built)  and of course spiraled out of a small little town off the railroad track or the few roads that existed in those days.. you took your map and recorded it at the county, county was happy they just got 5 thousand lots they could send out tax bills on..

As Amazon is busy having a city selecting beauty pageant, Apple is quietly negotiating a deal in RTP, North Carolina.The Apple deal is 10,000 jobs and $2B investment.

They never had any issues from guests except a broken tv that was paid for. $800 a night was the average and they had about 50% occupancy.It may be worth giving it a go and just leaving everything in it.

How can you compare apples to apples that way?

You look at some of the biggest companies like Apple for instance and they borrow as much money as possible even though they have billions in the bank.

Oh yeah and they also bought a 60" TV and some other luxury items during this time frame to boot :) . 

The tenant wanted 1 bill to pay every month and was willing to pay the higher rent that included cable TV service.