You'll make a much healthier return on your investment that way.If you simply want to buy a home and rent it out longterm, Elk Grove and Roseville are both considered more high-end suburbs and have appreciated significantly over the last decade.

I tell my clients all the time that the quality of your property will directly determine the quality of your tenants.This is a very important rental property investing fundamental most new investors always forget or ignore simply because they are just too desperate for  "Cash-Flow".

If the claim can be disputed, OTA disputes it and makes it hard to collect and the host may simply give up.i think pm, airBnB, guest and LL all know who was responsible for the vape in the toilet, but ota did not charge guest or pay for it and gave the guest a discount (a discount for an issue that the guest was responsible for).  

Is it best to simply increase rent by a fixed amount (e.g., $700) to cover this, or are there other strategies for handling utilities in this situation?

If they try to hide who their current landlord is or lie about it, you can simply deny them based on that.

At this point, I simply want to move on and feel the exit interview is a final attempt to have me sign things that I don't agree to.

Wouldn't just simply saving my $1K for 3 years suffice also? 

This a great option for high income earners who simply do not have the time for real estate.

Jay what you've got to understand about Josh is the fact he is simply lying.  

I don't want a nice car or nothing flashy with the money I have made it simply goes directly into the SMP