Plus, extremely minimalistic furniture (inflatable bed, foldable chair, foldable table).

If you are fortunate, the owner of the property will offer to buy your furniture where it stands.

(the son was big into breaking old furniture and stuff with a hammer) Now breaking down what I've done/plan to do:Smoke smell- I've had to put in some serious work getting the smell out -scrubbing walls and floors with TSP and running ozone relentlessly. 

Really all we did was remove some furniture that was left behind and gave it a good cleaning.

Say you buy leather, thread, and tools and make shoes.

When all of things are newer and you manage the guests well, the actual maintenance costs for a STR tend to be about the same, if not a tad lower, than long term (NOT including the ongoing cleaning costs . . . which again helps reduce the unplanned maintenance and repair costs of the STR).However, in another way you're likely to have MORE maintenance and repair in STRs because essentially you have all the volatility as a normal house, plus furniture and decor, plus a revolving door of guests. 

lol Problem is the credit card cost them future money in a negative way with interest rates and the assets they buy expensive car and other clothes and furniture etc. are depreciating at a fast pace.I looked over at some of my neighbors pouring tons of money into their house and thinking this superficial stuff they are never getting back dollar for dollar.

Upon some further research I found;The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of white birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe (or sometimes two) amongst the rods, with the blade(s) on the side, projecting from the bundle.[3].

I get all my furniture from tag sales, craigs list, left-over from purchases and spare furniture from family.

Turn-offs based on feedback is the bedrooms are all too small and can only fit queen beds with limited bedroom furniture.