If you ask the manager to justify a fee and he starts hemming and hawing, move on or require them to remove the fee.

(Otherwise it would be your dryer they removed.) then they would have to be looking at the obvious connections and go to the store and buy the wrong type.

If you found a few handymen you could rely on, and make a trip out there for a few days to get things set up with shopping, decorating, and furnishing the STR that would remove the red flag of the property manager, and significantly boost your material participation hours to clear one of the thresholds.

Basic staging with an agent usually means they give you insight into how you should:Declutter and depersonalize by removing photos and personal itemsArrange your furniture to improve the room’s flow and make it feel biggerAdd plants, move art, or re-arrange other accessoriesFull-service staging is another option if your house needs more hands-on attention.

Originally posted by @Kathy Fettke:Account Closed and like I mentioned earlier, we found out about their shenanigans very quickly, so only a handful of people contacted them, and we immediately removed them from our referral list.this has happened to all of us in the industry myself included..

We also allow removal of a tenant from a lease as long as the tenant group is in good standing, and the remaining tenants qualify again based on their combined income. 

You could get the 3rd party processing fee removed by working with a broker/lender that does in house processing.Seems you're being gouged for the appraisal review and admin fee...that's ridiculous. 

However, we have a two-pronged process to credit repair: negative items remove and positive items improve.

Given the cash flow loss on the 7% property, I think I need to remove the emotion and make the right business decision for my portfolio holistically.

Quote from @Paola Astrid: Should I refi to dscr or conventional to remove pmi?