Its like 100 bux a month, meaningless fee for them to handle it all Good luck  Hi Bob, who do you recommend in Akron that advertises your property on the Affordable Housing website? 

If your local law allows it, see what everyone else is doing and go by the norm. 3 months rent is a substantial amount for some, but really helps ensure the financial quality of a tenant.Sometimes I have immigrants who apply who work their tails off and can't afford the 3 months up front.

It’s also the career tenants who live in inexpensive housing because it’s all they can afford who are far more inclined to take advantage of liberal landlord tenant laws and that's going to be a minority of the tenant base if you invest in gateway cities.

If you are charging market rent, the rent you will lose for that 1 week of occupancy would afford you the ability to rent a comparable property on the market without the need for any of this kind of nonsense. 

Opportunities include affordable fixer-uppers, older neighborhoods, and targeting FHA buyers.Good luck!

This "house hacking" approach lets you live in one unit while renting the others, helping cover your mortgage and build equity more affordably.

We live out-of-state and they ended up draining our reserves and now we're stuck with a project that we can't afford to finish.

I think long term future trends will continue to support affordable real estate markets. 

I personally like long term rentals, but it sounds like the numbers don't make sense and if you cant afford to or can't justify covering that much negative cash flow then another strategy is renting by the room, that works well if you have or can convert to at least 4 or 5 bedrooms. 

Columbus is a solid market due to its high demand for affordable housing and relatively affordable property prices.