Years ago we had some non heat resistant quartz and when people put hot pans on it, it left rings.3 - Hotel Linens - Plenty of providers out there for this. 

Montgomery has a great rental market. 1)The last numbers I saw showed 47% of homes here are rentals. 2)That is due to a strong federal job market with federal courthouses, Maxwell and Gunter air force bases. 3)Lots of state jobs, about 10 colleges and universities, tourism, 3 major hospitals, 4)a Hyundai manufacturing plant, and Amazon is building a distribution warehouse.5) Low property taxes.6) Population growth.7) Landlord friendly state.8) We can typically hit the 1% rule on rent to price ratioFrom Wikipedia, Alabama has the second lowest property taxes behind Hawaii.2.

Since we didn’t have a pool and are not walking distance to the Broadwalk, we focused on interior design and that has helped, but we consistently lose out to Airbnbs with a pool, so we are working on maybe getting an above-ground pool and/or hot tub.

The basement also houses all of the mechanicals usually, so you would be sleeping with the furnace and hot water heater.

The unfortunate truth about cheap properties is that a hot water heater and a roof still cost about the same as a proprety in a more expensive areas so your repairs/vacancy/capex is going to eat up a larger % of the gross rent than a more expensive property even though the $ might be similar.

I just think now may not be the best time to buy multi-family in formerly Hot markets, like Austin MSA, that are clearly going down in price.

Built another smaller 1600 sq ft house with open air balcony for a roof for $130,000. 

There will be no significant cut in interest rates, because the Fed can't cut rates; inflation is still running hot.

For rentals 3/2's will go like hot cake but anything larger or much larger you will need to just wait.

But then along comes things like the divorce court system in the USA which can liquidate you like a hot knife through butter.