I have a fax machine / scanner/ copier and occasionally fax.

Might suit me just fine for the occasional fax so I am going to look into it.FYI - https://app.hellofax.com/info/pricing

That's very common here, with the occasional $250 or $500 offered instead. 

This is just the normal operating costs, never mind the big things that come up occasionally with capex like when you have to replace a major component (furnace, water heater, sewer line, driveway, steps, deck, windows, roof, doors, siding, landscaping, etc,) and it costs $10-20k.

Or, put in another way, we get more interest in us renting a property and giving it back to the owner as opposed to a landlord doing all the management and then asking us to occasionally do maintenance on the property. 

Occasionally, I still experience "impostor syndrome" and feel like I can't do what I'm doing even though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

.- Flexibility: If you want to use the property yourself occasionally, you have that option.- More Work: Managing a short-term rental requires more effort with frequent guest turnover and maintaining high standards for reviews.As for platforms, Airbnb is popular, but you might also consider VRBO or Booking.com for short-term rentals.

And mine says jammed occasionally when the battery gets low.

I’d have to think that, at this point, 99% of Poconos homes are failing to break even every month in STRAt this point the Poconos has basically just become a market for locals, people in NYC or Philly who want a vacation home that occasionally rents out to subsidize a tiny portion of their mortgage every month.

Main priority is the screening/lease/onboarding and the occasional letter I might want to store for recordkeeping.