What are the best strategies you would advise to newbies and wish you knew when you started?

Wish both of us (landlord and tenant) knew this leaking earlier.

It may be best to find a professional management to assist until you learn what management entails, enough to make a decision on if you wish to self-manage or not. 

It may not make sense to become a rental at that point, but at least you will have some equity under your belt if you wish to keep it or sell it .

Get some great reviews, then start bumping up your price.CalendaringIf you're looking to fully book your place (and watch out what you wish for; it's a lot of work), then learn to manipulate the minimum-and-maximum-stay feature.

I wish you luck figuring out which one works best. 

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It's hot and muggy during the summer and I personally wish it had snow more than once every 5-7 years.

You can then determine the best time to sell based on your own personal situation as well as macro supply/demand factors at the time you wish to sell.

MLS will give you some, but you can look online to the City's website for the City owned real estate they have for sale, but those tend be up to highest bid.I wish there was a catch-all answer to this question, but there really isn't, because it depends on several factors - like what's your price range, what are you looking to do with the property?