If they say no, we ask why, and occasionally, we can sway them if there had been a misunderstanding—for example, a lingering maintenance issue that hasn’t been addressed and they didn’t bother to call about.We don’t have time for a deep dive on lease renewals, but it’s definitely worth picking up a copy of Jeffrey Taylor’s The Landlord’s Survival Guide, which has all sorts of tips on getting tenants to renew.

I live 10 minutes or so from Fair Park in East Dallas so tend to invest in my immediate area (which is already an expensive area) but can see the edges of old East Dallas and the Fair Park/Expo park area blurring. 

If you only need it occasionally, continuing to rent and write off the costs might be more cost-effective.

Although the occasional gut job on a kitchen or bathroom might make sense.

So if the payment did not process until midnight but Forte pulled the payment at 6PM (they used to pull ours at 4:30 PM until we changed to to midnight for the reasons listed above) there were occasionally failed payments that the bank would have not known the reason why. 

To other points made on this thread, occasionally the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

I sell some of these occasionally. 

OWNER assumesno liability to TENANT if such should occur as all products have a useful life and breakdown occasionally"My partner has a signed copy from the VRBO tenant.The way my partner has left it with the tenant is that my partner is investigating the issue and will get back to her.Does anyone have any advice on how to handle this?

Do not believe the lie that you can adequately manage your vacation rental with your iPhone and some far east "customer service agents" to take the occasional phone call.

Meeting is normally on Thursday nights, occasionally on Tuesdays, and some full day Saturday seminars.