Quote from @Chris Watkins: Quote from @Chris Watkins: Quote from @Eric Lee: Hi all,I'm looking to acquire my first rental property and am strongly leaning towards a short-term rental while doing a MTR for off-peak seasons.

You get a pie chart of income and expense breakdowns and then you can open up the bullets to the expense or income categories and it is further broken down as far as you have decided to enter categories for your data.Best I found is, this was a 30 day free trial and I just looked to check, it is currently listed as $119 a year. 

overall 50% book rate for Dec that still may go up slightly (especially the zero booked unit is likely to book for Christmas).There is a reason it is called the off season.

Killeen is a good cash flow market, but you have to buy in the right area and also time your tenant turnover to the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) season since it is predominately military town

Not sure when you purchased the property, but keep in mind conventional loans require 12 months of seasoning before you can use the appraised value for a cash out refi.

I do think i'm going to just have to bite the bullet and offer it for pretty low. 

.- Generally landlord-friendly state, no rent control- Secure government jobs/contracts make the real estate market much more resilient to recessions / major corrections- 15-minute drive to the Capitol of the United States- 4 Seasons- 15-minute drive to Arlington, Virginia (Amazon Headquarters 2 ((2017 announced, 2030 is bringing 25,000 new high-paying    jobs to the area)), Boeing Headquarters (2022), Microsoft Headquarters (2021), CoStar Headquarters (2024), Bloomberg    Headquarters (2017 expanded), Deloitte, and the list goes on)Thesis:Although more companies continue to go back to the office, there will be a shift toward a good amount of workers being able to be in hybrid roles.

Currently, I'm only qualifying off $80K of income so it doesn't help me qualify for a lot.It looks like Snow Removal is about $700-$1000 for a full season?

As seasoned investors, we buy properties we see as “a good deal”.  

I appreciate learning from you and the reminders for tax season.