Staging your house well can help you attract more attention from buyers, which ultimately helps it sell faster and maybe for a higher price than an unstaged home (see visual):What Are My Staging Options?

If they do, then you can likely find another tenant for that amount fairly easily, as I would assume the entire town's taxes are up- so if someone really wanted to be in town, that price is the new normal.If your taxes increased that substantially in a C neighborhood, your tenants would way more likely give push back for that type of increase- even though you're not being greedy, you're just imposing the same raise you were given.Often the buyer who had the "well, the numbers are better" mentality is only looking at year 1. 

You should have an opt-out of the contract too, so if there is anything that you are not being represented correctly on you can opt-out of it as well. 

On top of that, OOS investors love the price point here, and MI is actually pretty landlord friendly, contrary to some opinions.I personally make well over $100k/yr cash flow from 21 properties here.

I'm looking to have my property rezoned as well and I'm wondering if you were able to accomplish yours?

Quote from @Lyle Lathem: Well darn.

Im interested in finding real estate groups to make new connections as well.

I don't know the city well, but seems to be light on demand drivers other than Baylor University. 

If you really have gone from 3 to 200 properties this past year while having a two W2 jobs, you seem to have found your niche and doing well, good for you. 

Interestingly, though, people who have experience with STRs seem more likely to pivot to the MTR strategy once they realize how much easier it is and how well the renters treat their units.