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In order to minimize the amount of time you'll spend hands on managing, I suggest finding a good cleaning crew and an on-call handy man or maintenance company.

You can get high night rates during football season and holidays, but outside of that they drop rates below $100/night to minimize vacancies.

PM me and I can point you towards a couple of options for Refi with minimal seasoning.  

If this is the second time, that indicates you need something tougher.

One is a good deal of the house's are going to owner occ's and that usually indicates better schools and neighborhoods that are better kept.

It is not minimal in cost but I think it can help in most cases. 

Maybe I'll branch out in the future, but not sure yet.Slow flipping or house hacking would be great, but I have a 4 month old and we love our house, so that's off the table.I guess I'm looking at ways to minimize risk when starting out.

That statement alone will cause you to move too quickly and take too much leverage which minimizes those solid investments you already have.Ask yourself, why do you want to scale faster?

With a purchase price of $131,000 and a sale price of $189,900, the property promised substantial returns with minimal investment.