I moved to Michigan from Paris, France in July 2019.I discovered Bigger Pockets with YouTube.

LisaYour real estate is like your college football... badGo Bucks! 

The latter is to prevent eye-sore spiderman sheets or football team flags as window coverings.

Of course I would love to be located at 50th and France in Edina, but I won’t find anyone selling at the price there.

I tutored a student in the football program on scholarship.

I just returned back to the states from a three week trip in France.

I just returned back to the states from a three week trip in France.

New Public Schools.To replace the aging ones.Cafeteria space is already there, bathrooms already there.Easily patrolled (because many American Schools need a police presence).Gates can be slammed down over entrances to help with the needed lock downs.Lots of parking, and probably a lot of room for growth.Plus they are pretty inside.J Crew could be 7th grade, and JC Penny could be 10th grade, etc...Tear up part of the blacktop and put in a Football and etc...field(s).And kids like to go to malls!

So, since I'm at a crossroads, I blocked future bookings, and only have a few more this month; so this would be a perfect time to change strategy if I wanted.The options I see are:1) Find another local cleaner, and spend many long evenings over the beginning period monitoring their work;2) Hire a local STR property management company to deal with it;3) Scale back my operations significantly - I realized that by only renting the property out on football game and graduation weekends, that I can probably make 70-80% of annual expenses and use this time to reset;4) Hire a local individual to act as a personal property manager;5) Move away from STR (at least on these two properties) and pivot to LTR;6) Pivot to Medium Term Rentals since the properties are already furnished.Regarding #1, this is kind of business as usual, but would have me learn from my mistakes on the first cleaner and hopefully not repeat them.

If mid-lease inspection has uncovered a ceiling fan and two light fixtures that need replaced (broken by kids hitting then with a football), do I send the tenants a bill to pay now, or deduct out of security deposit?