Just the different brand name lowers the cost dramatically!

Obviously, if there is a large hole in the wall or they painted a different color, then you can charge them to paint.

Its not as easy but once you are up in running you are building a brand, equity in your business, and also constant flow of leads.

In addition to a voucher, we require that the tenant be able to show income at least 1.5 time the monthly rent, as opposed to our regular tenants who must show 3.5 time monthly rent.Thank you for your input.In your opinion, using vast generalizations, is the additional risk managable for a brand new investor? 

They wear like iron and still look great after 7 years of vacation rental use.Remember, you don't need to buy brand new.

Of course, for some they would not want to do anything different than what they already are doing.

It's all in how conservative you are in your approach to underwriting your deals.Even when a Seller says they've improved the property, the tenants are still tenants and do damage to brand new improved units. 

It can be used to monitor markets, filter results based on lots of different criteria & even includes annual revenue numbers that you can work backwards to see how certain markets/properties are performing.

It’s a 3 bedroom home, brand new build and just shy of 1500 sq ft.

Developers have been on a building rampage for the last 5 years, so we've got brand new apartments sitting vacant and properties less than 50% full in many areas of town.