you're "out of pocket" those costs, plus maybe a month of vacancy.my point - you're basically always out of pocket on a rental. sometimes the rent more than covers everything, other times it doesn't. 

Sale to sold ratio is 5:1 wow but price is flattening without reduction of seasonality ; basically this market is bought by in-migration from NYC/MA area pretty much, it's not an organic growth.

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When he sold it was basically a wash, less the cash-flow collected.

I believe that doing cabins now I can basically do the same thing that took me 15 years to do in houses in terms of growing a portfolio worth 10 to 12 million to where I'll owe 7 to 8 million (3 to 4 million in equity/net worth) that will net about 150k to 200k a year.   

Those should drive a ton of traffic to your listing.Furnished Finder is the go to for MTRs (long term rentals with a shorter stay, over 30 days).You can also use FB like @Bruce Woodruff mentioned but you will need to get everything setup to take bookings.

you should come to the highest&best toy drive and REI meetup today so we can meet and chat.

Basically where I have been getting the info from is the only place to get the newest info.

However, we found receipt management (downloading emails and pictures and saving them to Google Drive) to be so cumbersome and decided to join QBO train.

Quote from @Miguel Del Mazo: It basically says that if the electric bill is twice what the same month's bill from last year was, the overage will be charged as a fine.That's a good barometer actually.