The last 2 guests we had were AirBNB (our only 2 this year) and the took a beach towel, took the waffle maker, broke the window, trashed 3 bath towels, used an entire bottle of dish soap (to make bubblebath I assume) and took about 50 Cascade dishwasher pods.

But I'm noting that trick about watering down the soap and dish detergent.

I find it inspiring that so many on here have found success without dishing out money to these "gurus".....Nice.

There's some furniture which will have to be taken to a dump due to the dog, a large piano and rooms full of just "stuff" (pictures, dishes, clothes, toys, etc).When I first bought the place, I removed a storm window to get in the place and left the front door unlocked.

You need to see an attorney.The thing is, that if you MUST advertise a property yourself, then the strategy dished out by gurus as to putting a sales contract or option on a property and just moving along doesn't wash.

The former owners finally got all their stuff out of the living room and we saw the large "dish" in the floor that took up about half the room.

and have thought up a name and recipe for the dish being served the country (even world) over right now: Depression Delight.

Have you ever heard the Klingon proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold.

Try some local dishes like pozole, molcajete, fried cheese tacos, mahi mahi, it's all delicious.

In the end, even if your Dad chooses to bicker about the "bad" that you are doing because of being a real-estate investor, your positive attitude about the good that you make available will drown out anything your Dad, or anybody, might dish out at you.