It gives you one pane of glass to see everything on both platforms, one place for messaging and then all the other stuff.  

Should I tell him to let her inside and collect her stuff or should I let her contact the police and go through small claims courts and stay out of it and leave the old lease intact till then.

Most of your money is in the stuff other people don't want to do.

Don't forget to have fun..Particularly in coastal Oregon vacation rental homes serve dual purpose as a secondary sanctuary, and it is best investors don't part with their peace arriving. 

No guru stuff - just plain old effort. 1.

You can definitely get cheaper ones, but we've had durability issues with really cheap ones, and even a lot of them arriving with cracks in the surround.

Rehabbed most of the stuff myself except for supply lines in the plumbing.

Sometimes stuff still goes wrong, but that's on me since i made the choices and decisions.

If you know you will be a pushover or have no follow through and know you won’t be consistent about doing things like maintenance and finance stuff then you should just hire a property manager.

Generally, here's the rule I follow with stuff like this: If every house on the block has a garage and you remove it from your house, that's an expected facet of the home that is lost and you will objectively lose value when comparing to another house from a "market value" perspective; especially from an appraiser's point of view.