Quote from @Kenzer Hodgson: Quote from @Trent Reeve: personally, i think a dynamic pricing tool will pay for itself (should be around $20/month). it will help with far out/near time pricing, minimum stays, etc. 

So the Janitor usually wins, defined as making more passive income than your expenses, because his expenses start off so low and stay low.Unfortunately, after you play it a while, you get to know what to look for, like when that one stock becomes available for, I forget, $3 or something ...

Everyone thinks they can become a millionaire fast, and skip all the discipline aspects of it.   

Since you're new to real estate (according to the title), you really don't have anything to base it on other than your own personal experiences staying elsewhere.

., the actual management of the property & tenant play a large roll in how long tenants stay in their home.

Looks like all of us have to do it after all this nonsense of stay and injuntion.

A reliable tenant stays for many years, pays the rent on schedule, and takes good care of the property.Reliable tenants are the exception, not the norm.

Bridge is flooded 8 feet now so have stay on our side for 2 days.  

I have thought about Ohio as well but may stay local and we definitely need to put time into our STR's to get them better.

Will rent out the unit we’re leaving which covers about 65% of our new mortgage, if we pocketed it but that stays in the rental fund.