Also, operating expenses like cleaning, or purchasing sheets, and towels are much cheaper.

. - Finding a Good Team: Since there is a language barrier in place it was much harder to communicate with any cleaning companies/property managers we found. 

With some cleaning up and small renovation you can get up to $2000 per unit.

Vacationers are starting to go back to hotels as Airbnb fees have increased and they don't want to deal with cleaning dishes on top of paying cleaning fees.We stayed in a nice vacation rental on the Oregon Coast and there was evidence that kids or homeless were hanging about when it was vacant.  

Sure when it is clean a dark color looks much better however it also shows dust and dog hair a lot more.

If it persists, I would hire someone to clean it up and bill the tenant back.

I will say we generally have no trouble keeping ours full and we focus on having nice, clean, safe spaces.

Exterior maintenance such as pressure wash and gutter cleaning, these times we take care of them and usually at turnover.

It was the owner of the house and a couple of neighborhood teens who handled the demo and clean up.

She realizes after we paid her and contractors she hired over $5,000 to get it painted , cleaned etc that we are out of money and she agreed to not charge us anymore but is still somewhat helping us and showing to potential renters .We have discussed different terms as I told her from her on out we can’t afford the monthly rate anymore .