You want an investment that pays for itself, including mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance, and even some money set aside for a reserve to cover vacancies and capital expenditures.

I am the type of person that is normally looking to save a money to increase my investing so the thought of paying someone to do my taxes when we could do them ourselves didn't make sense. 

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Every where you turn there are STRs going up on the market fully furnished because they couldn't pay the mortgage and bills with the rental income. 

After I make those payments then my lease with them is for $5,250 for 12 months where they pay all of the utilities.

Yes, the government pays the Section 8 rent timely, but more and more tenants are having to pay a portion of their rent.

So I put $1600 on a credit card for a down payment and then pay $500 a month until the full amount was paid off.

It's likely they’re using this as an excuse to avoid paying rent, and there’s a good chance they didn’t pay the previous manager either.

We typically pay somewhere in the range of $3500 for a new, basic furnance, including install, if there are no other modifications to the system required.  

Will it pay the full PITI plus Capex, management fees, maintenance etc?