Houfy now has a damage protection plan that costs the guests $5 a night and does light identity screening through SuperHog. 

You can cover the wire mesh with drywall patches (they tape on wall and across the wire, white/paintable, different sizes) as the wire mesh is what will prevent the rats from eating their way into the property (the covering material is cosmetic only).

To fulfill the contract the Seller needed to pay for the survey, which resulted in a size of 1.8 acres. 

A PMC is the ONLY one that will deal daily with your property.Here's some copy & paste advice on hwo to screen PMCs:Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

It was the same price as the 1st property I bought except twice the size and two of everything.

Hello All,
What app/Managment software have you found success with for taking applications and managing tenants? Why do you like it and what do you dislike?

**Tenant Screening**: The Section 8 program will cover a tenant's rent, but that doesn’t mean you should skip tenant screening.

In our reviews our lake, pool, size of our house and location relative to everything else gets the most mentions.

Any additional mail costs $.50-$.76 depending on the size... so to prevent you from having hundreds of $.50 charges on your credit card, the default "reload" is $50 (you can set this to whatever you like in the app).Hope this helps....

Use the top three or four discriminators so applicants can screen themselves.Then you need to have clear screening criteria yourself.