Above is the living room with a very sexy gas heater fireplace.

Skilled trades start in the high teens per hour and by the time you would have finished college you’ll be making 30-60/hr.

Still, for the time and energy required of a "hands on" real estate investment, I'd imagine investors expect an ROI anywhere in the mid-to-high single digits, all the way up to the mid-to-high teens.

Yes, not sexy, but it does reduce risk

If so, forgive the duplication.For those Airbnb hosts in Denver and Colorado Springs (and anywhere in our great state), you might have heard about a bill being considered by an interim legislative committee that would have reclassified short-term rental properties as commercial properties for the purposes of property taxation.Without going into the super sexy minutia of tax policy, essentially the bill would have change the percentage of your property eligible to be taxed by local mill levies from 7.2% to 29%.

I was especially sensitive to this "privacy issue" originally because guests at 1 of my cabins called the police due to a "peeping Tom" watching their teen daughters in the hot tub.

While I'm quite happy with my sexy rent, these people move around a lot: their show ends, they buy a house, their company strikes it rich and they're out.

Unreal!  Has anyone come across someone being kicked out of their unit due to ESA and a no pet policy?  Seems like the co-op being so Draconian backfired.  I can see if the ESA wasn't legit but appears the co-op didn'...

It's not sexy or any kind of brilliant insight but yeah you quote it out @Julia Hwang.

It's not as sexy as buying a duplex, but everyone's looking for a 2-4 unit in places like our market (and it sounds like in Detroit as well), so go where people aren't looking.