What I've seen is there are 3 general tiers of services provided, at least in my market:10 - 15% - Online services only such as Evolve (marketing, listing management, dynamic pricing, calendar mgmt, etc), you may need to source the cleaners, keep household items stocked, and you might need to be the point of contact for the guest during their stay if any maintenance issues come up. 

Home Defense kills just about every household bug.

;-) Something like 56% of Memphis households are renters, which is among the highest rates in the nation. 

I threw this all in an Excel file, then filtered it to exclude ZIP codes with vacancy rates above 5%, fewer than 100 quads, median rent less than $800, median household income less than $50,000 (I am looking to avoid Class C-D), and fewer than 5,000 households in the area.Then I sorted by the price-to-rent, and got this for the Top 10:Naples, FL 34105Town of Horseheads, NY 14845Plantation Island, FL 34109Pittsburgh, PA 15211Homewood, IL 60430Chili, NY 14624Penn Hills, PA 15234Pennsville Township, NJ 08070Milwaukee, WI 53222Saint Clair Shores, MI 48082The rules prohibit me from linking the Google Doc, but if you are interested in it I am more than happy to share - just ask!

Thirdly, there's a time in everyone's life when they don't know how to do even simple household repairs.

Household of 4 persons need approx 4,500 kWh per year = 990,00 Euro.

I ended up saying that the total household income must meet 3 times the rent, and who ever contributes to that amount must be included on the lease.

I don't have any other real estate or businesses, I plan on renting out my house when we move to other house 1-2 years from now, family of 5 annual household income 85k.

CNN reported a few years back that 10M US households don't have bank accounts.

So if the rented room equals 15% of the entire square feet of the house, you can deduct 15% of household expenses, like utility bills.See IRS publication 527.