Tonight, I came home to find his car parked partly on the lawn and partly in the driveway.

What if it sits vacant for a month, and you lose the entire $3,500 rent income plus the cost of utilities, lawn mowing, and other expenses?

But it's always great to have a nice seating area including throw pillows, dining area, outdoor lawn games like the oversized connect four, Jenga etc., definitely string lights somewhere that makes sense, and other decorative accessories like plants.

You're going to run up other people and crowd out that other offer and consider them not tangible enough or "tire kickers", when in reality all you did was artificially increase the bids. 

He began by plowing for me and then started doing my lawn and then moved to some basic maintenance and now close to 20 years later I basically pay him a monthly salary to do whatever needs to be done.

Despite having a backyard, they sometimes let their 2 small dogs out the front door and do their business on my lawn which was green before they moved in. 

However, I added value in other ways by managing the rental myself, from listing on sites, managing tenants, mowing the lawn, and cleaning the house in between guests.

Consider all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

Obviously you want to push rents as high as possible, but you've got to know how to stop before creating an artificial turnover.

Rents are all inclusive of high speed unlimited internet, lawn care, housekeeping of common areas, and all utilities.