.• Zillow gives good filters for amenities like washer and dryers• Ask your property management what is standard• SFH’s should have the tenant paying the utilities• RUBS is Reimbursement Utility Billing System• Skeptic on keyless entry soon but good for short term rentals• A lot of new hardware and software coming but lets try it out at our own homes first yea 😁• Use the technology in your rentals for tracking and monitoring• Don’t have personal relationships with your tenants• Property manager’s are the most critical people on your team and go off referrals• Yelp is just angry vendors writing bad reviews for each other• I look for the negative reviews as a good thing because they don’t want to cave in to resident requests• A nest thermostat or Thanksgiving turkey might be a good gift to bait a longer contract

They often have old single wall tanks and poor monitoring systems.The larger national gas station brands back any contamination clean up usually and have extensive new double wall tanks and monitoring systems right there to catch any inkling of a spill and rectify it.For gas stations usually a ground lease or absolute NNN.

Monitoring this topic.

Generally, when I visit properties I like to request the tenant to be there while I'm there so that my activities are "monitored". 

I also rent out a house to a young family on a year-lease - and that property has a guest house as well, and I'm monitoring and waiting for a day when I have to address Airbnb issue with them... or cure :)The site is nothing more then a middle-man and a platform to connect hosts and guests - even though their own terms and conditions try hard to avoid that label.

Some life insurance policies could solve one problem but create another if the cash values are not monitored by both the agent and the client.This is my last post in this thread.Please seek guidance from competent professionals for these complex financial issues.

Of course we still have plenty of AirBnb listings and not all landlords who ban its use monitor their tenants, but I think it's enough of a deterrent to prevent AirBnb from taking too many available units from locals.

I constantly monitor the areas within 90 miles of Atlanta and I remain very happy with Macon.

So we just use the VRBO and AirBNB apps to manage our lake house.We have a Schlage Encode lock, Sensi Smart thermostat and a home monitor.

We have offered the following so far - Appraiser to enter wearing gloves/masks/shoe covers and not touching anything (which most appraisers are doing now anyway)tenants not being home during appraisal and having appraiser monitored by our PMcomplimentary deep cleaning once appraiser leaves (this would mean more unknown people entering the property)Gift card for cleaning supplies to be purchased cash / discounted rent for next month _______________________________________ Alternate route - I've got a call in to the appraiser and the bank loan officer to see if they can negotiate an alternate appraisal method that the bank will accept in lieu of access to the interior.