If you use a software designed for long term rentals, you'll have less of those type of features, but you may get features that help with getting a lease signed, maintenance ticket tracking, and the like.

Seems like there is always something that he can offer and plan a well rounded overall strategies depending on your particular situation. 

"Them Hillbillies ain't playing 'round !!!" 

Big ticket items or "outdated grandmas" house from 1958 and mostly cosmetic? 

If you are a landlord and not using a licensed Real Estate Agent as a property manager you can get away with not complying with all the fair housing laws, but when you are like my company and you have multiple properties available to rent at one time, that is when it is very easy to find out if we treat all applications the same across the entire portfolio.  

As for STR, I am about 20 minutes from the beach and it wouldn't have much attraction IMO as far as marketing it as a vacation or getaway or anything like that, especially because it is only about the size of a studio (its a garage conversion for the bedroom, and then an additional kitchenette area and bathroom behind it).

If you have STRs there: - Do you stay busy year round?

If they deny the incident entirely, then I would get a copy of the police report and use that as justification to send that lease violation notice and include a copy of the report so that they know they can't get away with lying to you.

Maybe your perception was different, but I remember the sense we had at Wacker Neuson going through rounds of layoffs, dealers defaulting, order cancelations and no sense when the construction equipment industry would recover, or if there would even be a full recovery - ever.. nobody had ever seen anything like it. 2008 was bad, I think Lehman Brothers collapsed in October, by 2009 we had to assume the equipment industry would never be the same.

Back in my days based in Germany & France there were enclaves of these very small  summer 'cottages' used as get-aways as the majority lived in cramped apartments in the city.