As @Julia Lyrberg noted, MTRs typically rent for more than LTRs, as they should for a furnished home with utilities included. 

Highlighting unique property features is essential.

While we didn’t need significant updates, our team focused on cleaning, staging, and marketing to highlight the home's features.

Giving them a laundry list of items will typically just overwhelm them and create more confusion instead of giving them a smaller step process to get more confidence to get the ball rolling and then they can get into the weeds on their state when they get the contractors out there, have local bids come in, and dial in their plan. 

In investing that's typically done by exchanging one asset for another rather than using cash as an intermediary (which would require you to time the market perfectly).

I got the terms mixed with open mortgage (no penalty to pay off early, but higher interest rates) and closed (more typical mortgage with lower rates, but the penalties to pay off the mortgage)...that'll teach me not to post too early in the morning :)

In the Netherlands, for example, banks typically offer refinancing options with a Loan to Value (LTV) of up to 80% in some cases, depending on the property and the borrower’s financial history.

Our biggest climate risks in central Texas are typically wind and hail, so anything of concern regarding the roof could get an applicant declined including trees too close to the roof surface, roof over 10 years old, etc.

All the other fancy ways people try and get creative with owning something typically only costs you money and provides zero benefit. 

Mine typically do provide pictures of anything observed to be out of the norm when they arrive at the property to clean.Sorry for the confusion!