Hey Mat,You're on the right track!

I've had a couple strange inquiries come through AirBNB recently.One was from a woman who wanted to rent my place for 3+ months, only paying one month at a time, and requested that I block off future months so that no one else could book my rental.Another was from a gentleman who identified himself as a traveling medical professional and wanted to book my rental outside of AirBNB, then reveals how he's cash-strapped because of a family matter, yada yada...I declined both.

The CASH program has gotten better for those cash strapped community owners.Curt is right.

We ask folks to put down area rugs or small mats under their furniture.

That seems hard to believe, but I've not been able to get any professional opinions yet.Situation: The owner is pretty strapped.

I inherited a scum bag tenant that lived in the property for 17 years who destroyed the apartment with all his amazing handywork and stopped paying rent when i told him he couldnt use his apartment as a laundry mat.

i'd be tempted to let them out since they have been nice.I may counter at $5k + any costs I had (like appraisal), but I don't have it in my to enforce specific performance and take a nice person to the mat in court

As soon as you go to 2, 3, 4unit properties you're looking at 750-1050 dollars plus if you're doing a rental property and are required to do a rental property survey (AKA form 1007 for the loan officers out there) then thats another 125-150 dollars.This assumes you dont have any repairs (double strapped water heaters, health/safey repairs, CO/Smoke Detectors, being most common).

I dunno...I looked at owing the building of a local 'mat years ago and decided against it.

@Joe AnthonyYou already made a great first step by posting here in BP.If you are cash strapped, start reading / collecting as many free resources as possible.