The lowest hanging fruit the insurance coverage because the insurer is most likely to pay out. 

@Jenny Perron yea its nuts!

Its simply appalling to hear you bash any form of marketing except your own, then have the nuts to claim you aren't like all the other gurus.

Our "nut" for our airbnb is $26,000 a year which includes utilities, restock, taxes, and insurance.

It drives me nuts (pun intended) He is 26 years old and has most of his cash in things that are falling apart.  

'"you show me a bad tenant - i'll show you a bad landlord"the fruit -  don't fall far from the treeI wish you the best!!!

All the brokers say the low hanging fruit is gone.  

Im wondering if we should put the house up for sale in the hope it shifts fairly quickly, or try and cover the nut on both property's until we can rent it out for enough to cover most of the mortgage in Richmond,keeping to the buy & hold strategy that we were starting to implement.

If I were about 30 years younger (now 70 and enjoying the fruits of my decades of labor) I'd be hitailing it to Texas ASAP. 

Brooklyn is so nuts right now, I know someone who grabbed something  out there 2.5 years ago for $500k, it's worth $3MM now.