From what I have seen in Colorado Springs, the lease only tends to range from half a month's rent to a full month's.Keep in mind, Colorado is coming out of a very anti landlord legislative session and you will have to stay in compliance with the changing laws.

If they owned the property jointly she should get a step up in basis for his half of the ownership. or if he owned it outright and she inherited it, I believe she would get a full step up.

Our current tenant has been there a year and a half and couldn't be happier!

So our internet speed at our lake house....12mb.We are way out down lake 36 miles so it is pretty rural.

So you had lots of vacancies in the weekdays and then people having parties on the weekends.Lots of locals smoking weed on the front porch / blasting music on front porch, plus worse, that I wasn’t fully privvy too.Airbnb is making it harder and harder to screen Airbnb tenants (a quick Google / FB stalk is impossible without last names / photos being shown).A party starting to kick up at 2 am that you’re watching from your outdoor cams hundreds of miles away and your 450k home on the line is a terrible feeling.Anyone who’s been doing Airbnb long enough has horror stories, big items stolen, thousands of dollars of damage, or worse.

Half the time the city can't make up its own mind on what needs to be permitted and what doesn't, doesn't have enough inspectors to keep up and often have rules that don't even make sense to national building code guidelines.

wow thanks bro. rude. you don't know the half of it.

There will also be a half dozen lawyers milling around the steps who will auction off a property whenever they are ready.  

One had a final projected cost of about $300K per door, while another 98% occupied building about a mile away and maybe 5 years old selling for $130K a door. 

Once I was ready to start my projects, I would sign up for a Business credit card(s) that offered the best miles/points and then I would purchase materials using said business credit card(s).