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. 

.- 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.

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.

And mine says jammed occasionally when the battery gets low.

Occasionally you will see listings in the MLS that state "all work done with permits" or something similar but in most cases, it's a don't ask, don't tell approach.

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

I enjoy how this thread devolved from "Education Expenses" into someone promoting tax fraud since "they'll never figure it out".But...occasionally they do.

(Although we do use automation for other things, mostly SmartThings.)They aren't well reviewed on Amazon and the like, and I get why, but once you get them running, they only need Wifi to get new codes occasionally, I have it set to wake up and check twice a day to save on battery.PM me if you have any questions on them.

No-one is successful (outside of occasional tech start-ups) on revenue, especially when you are talking about real estate, a highly leveraged industry, and hospitality, a fairly low margin service industry.