Bonneville CountyAverage Purchase Price: $380,000Average Rental Price (3-bed home): $1,700/monthKey Highlights:Home to Idaho Falls, a regional economic hub.Diverse economy with strong healthcare, education, and energy sectors.Steady population growth and increasing rental demand.5.

When I was outfitting my rental property, I opted for new appliances to attract tenants with the promise of reliability.

Keep that money moving like it’s on a treadmill.Build a Team: Have a solid team in place – a reliable contractor for renovations, a property manager if you don’t want to self-manage, and a good lender.

However, we do not want the tenant to pay for the electricity that we use.I contacted Edison and the County to see if we could install an additional electric pole to have a separate meter, but they said it is not allowed to have more than one pole for our property.I found a sub-meter on Amazon, and I wonder if it is allowed to install one on the electric pole, so our tenant can see how much energy we have used.

I'm setting up our basement apartment as an Airbnb and need a recommendation for a reliable cleaning service.

Hi Andrew - I use Reliant Energy (https://www.reliant.com) for the rental portfolio I own and the rentals I manage for others.You can ask Reliant for a month-to-month contract, instead of a 1 year contract. 

Overall, this is the most secure and reliable form of real estate investing.

Fortunately, I had a good property manager and reliable tenants.

You're asking someone to spend a lot of time and energy to share what they've spent years - maybe decades - learning and developing.

There are options for retrofitting coin machines or you can purchase new machines.I recommend talking to an appliance technician or checking out local laundromats to see which machines are used the most and are most reliable.