Your strategy on a 5/2 is going to take a little more blocking and tackling for mid term rentals.

We allow pets and the large yard is fully fenced, plus a small park 1 block away.

The home is just a block away, in the Sanctuary, but not technically ski in/ski out. 

I bought the cheap lowes light blocking blinds. 

Buying that ugly house on a nice block will pay you handsomely in the future.

Timber companies and the feds swap these lands all the time in an effort to create large blocks of either gov land or private timber lands.

They want to hear from a local down the block, not a fake company.

Above those two, scheduling and time blocking are usually where people are failing.

I'm not sure if BP allows me to post my email but it is  (...I'm scarred from Airbnb link blocking...andddd BP does not allow it haha). 

My savings was completely drained from interest payments and surprise costs I had to manage, and lots of little costs that at the outset I believed this guy would cover (100 to mow grass, every two weeks).