Winter holiday weekends are also strong.

Do a 1 year lease or if you want to avoid a vacancy in the winter, do 6 or 18 month. 

If you fail to remove icy conditions from the sidewalk after a winter storm and your neighbor slips and falls while walking their dog do you really believe they cannot sue whomever is the property owner because there is no contract?

Quote from @Marc Winter: Of course, a skill like that is marketable! 

It will be money well spent.Also, criminals know how to check which properties in the area are STRs and might be vacant during most of the winter.  

Doing it alone is no fun.  

Quote from @Daniel Snyder: Just having fun learning about real estate and trying to build a future for my grandchildren. 

That's fun - two first time posters singing the praises of this program One of which, Nick, works for the company based on his LinkedIn profile. 

While we are reading about fun cases, there is a frequent buyer in Texas that just took a case to the SCOTUS, but they declined to hear it. 

@Jen AndersonI have fun with them.