Most properties that size are 2nd homes and often sell with furniture included, which can reduce start-up costs.No cap on STR permits in Washoe County on the Nevada side. 

Is the pool decking crumbling and need replaced with all new furniture?

For instance is buying furnitures to furnace the house consider part of normal management activities? 

For example: could you sell the furniture off (even though 0%) and buy some that is $500-$1k and pocket the difference to use for a future investment?  

It takes a lot of life experience and finesse to deal with people coping with huge life struggles.If I were young and starting out, I'd offer paid services for clean outs and basic staging/moving around furniture.

Put their furniture and appliances in another house of yours. 

Purchase price: $287,000 Cash invested: $100,000 Our newly remodeled 4BR / 2BA mountain villa features all new furniture, 3 King beds and 1 Queen Bed, and plenty of parking for at least 4 vehicles.

You might even find including all your MtR furniture doesn’t help or possibly even hurts the value.  

We negotiated the furniture in the price and used some of our older furniture to update the decor.

But the realtor will give time for families to really dwell in the space and think about how their furniture will fit and how it will feel to live there.I'm assuming that the buyers are preapproved and ready to put a deposit down otherwise the realtors wouldn't be wasting anyone's time, hopefully.