Many of the OTAs and lead gen sites, like Furnished Finder, are pushing credit card payments. 99.9% of the time I get a message from FF saying 'your tenant would prefer to pay by credit card so activate Stripe now!' 

I’ve learned the hard way that a little miscommunication can lead to big headaches.

One thing I’ve always done is focus on the 75th percentile of the rent estimates, as my properties tend to fall into that range (very nice, but small with no amenities).While I think there will always be some manual research involved, the current platforms lack key functionality that could be easily implemented with the available market data and technology.1.Quality Metrics:•Filter comps to match the quality of your rentals.

Every time you lower your tax bracket you are lowering the value of the deductions.

Let's re-visit this post next year and see.

Since the HELOC was used for a business use (renovating the rental) you can deduct the loan interest against that rental using the interest tracing rules found in §1.163-10T. 

We need the cash to mostly just tie us over untill we sell the property, so 150,000 is on the upper end; 80,000 and above would probably be sufficient. 

I have been looking at properties and it seemed like the seller s  based their price on zero percent cash flow for the buyer.

If you run the number most of the properties are not going to beat the S&P500 return in the next 30 years.

I'm a dry sponge trying to soak up all the knowledge.