They will have the choice of manually entering each month's payment or they can set up recurring payments.

You're risking $5K up front and a recurring mortgage payment.  

There are many variants of the ROI calculation and most show much higher return because they do not include all the recurring costs or include such things as unrealized gain.Note that good investments in Las Vegas, like everywhere else, are not common.

It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction.  

I would love to hear your stories of investing in a down market, how you prepared for the "wave", your expectations v.s. reality, challenges and resolutions, and ultimately how everything - including the anxiety and uncertainty - payed off!

Vacancies cause me anxiety, but bad tenants cause a lot more.

The good prospective tenants get anxiety about finding a place so when they see a place that fits their criteria they in most cases want to see it ASAP when they have free time. 

It seems like this is a recurring gag and is almost considered unavoidable amongst some homeowners.

I don't know about anyone else but there was a lot of anxiety with the appraisal.  

Rachel Shepherd We have two recurring monthly transaction in Quickbooks for each property.