And when those all got called and we had to mark to market it was beyond our capacity to just pay everything off we had to fire sale and lose millions.

Regulation will say you have to be registered and pay hotel occupancy taxes, but your unit may not qualify for registration. 

If they have the time to make sure their reviews are good, they are going to charge you more than you need to pay because it's a big company.

Some of our borrowers are focusing on 4 bed 2 bath section 8 to push those numbers even higher.I pay close attention to 4-bedroom homes in Memphis for S-8 clients 

Having lived there a year it is a foreign country and many things are different and culture etc plus you have the native peoples that own huge amounts of real estate and They dont pay income tax and they get food and gas for way cheaper etc etc..

Everybody in that house should be paying some rent.

That experience taught me the importance of leaning on local expertise, even if it feels like an unnecessary expense at first.One strategy I’ve seen work occasionally is offering the tenant a “cash for keys” deal, where you pay them a small amount to vacate voluntarily.

We have trades we use on jobs and know what they will charge which is often considerably less than what Joe Homeowner would pay for the same job . . . the trades know we will be using them again and again. 

Sometimes the tenants plan on paying a month's rent at two places to allow a less-hectic move. 

This simply means you have language in your lease that states the landlord is responsible for paying utilities up to a certain $ amount (let's say $100 for the sake of argument).