Good management and fresh clean apartments bring top of the market rent to a re-emerging work force ready to serve the warehouse industry in a once great industrial railroad city. 

Everyone has opinions but some are not based in reality.If you are not providing significant services, like daily cleaning, on site chef for meals, custom tours etc. you should be filing on a schedule E. https://theshorttermshop.com/is-short-term-rental-schedule-e...

House needs minor repairs and cleaning and new roof before it's truly rent ready so maybe looking at Feb/March before it can be rented out.To throw another curveball, talked to someone else (RE agent in Sacramento and Bay Area agents) who suggested 1031 the Bay Area SFH to buy multi-unit (2 to 4 unit) or smaller apartment building in California to cash flow more than $2000 a month (Sacramento, Stockton, Central Valley) but my property tax will skyrocket since I'd be paying on current assessed value - I have reasonable property taxes because of Prop. 13.

Then you can clean/remove the mold and the problem won't come back.The most common source of moisture is lack of ventilation in the bathrooms or condensation on windows in the winter.

Also, cleaners should always clean the property every 2 weeks with a month-long stay!

Is the tenant maintaining a clean home, or do they leave food around that would attract pests?

Now here si the thing, cleaning is CHEAP, paint is CHEAP, taking good photos and video is CHEAP....

., when compared to higher classes.5) AVERAGE OCCUPANCY TERM: Varies greatly and is very hit & miss on lower Class tenants, screening can only do so much.6) TENANT DAMAGES: when a Class A tenant moves out, we often only have to do a cleaning.

Regarding remote managing, in our 24 years of experience, dealing with hundreds of investors, what we've had to bail DIY Remote Investors out of is mostly Class C properties with some Class B.So, in our opinion, one can remote manage a Class A property fairly easily if you are organized.Class B requires more organization and knowledge, to avoid tenants taking advantage of you.Class C should NOT be done DIY - hire a PMC!

How much of that 765 can I charge her for cleaning up the unit?