The fellow turned out to be a disaster: passed numerous bad checks, did not make them good, finally had to go to court to have him removed from the property by court order.

Let's keep it twice a month, and have people in the group invite anyone else in the area that might want to learn and grow together. 

If this is an equity investment, there's also a problem in that rent minus payment does not equal a numerator to properly calculate any kind of return. 

Just got off the phone this morning trying to figure out who my new PM is after they’ve rotated out numerous times now.

Just to throw my input on this thread, I managed numerous units for short term rentals well before the Airbnb era. 

It is in good condition and she says just needs a new roof (I’d still get it inspected), and given the closest comps in the area are about $260k at minimum, I inquired about buying it from her (for both the discount and the immediate equity of about $35k-$40k).This would be my first long-distance rental property (and my first property in general), so I’ve run the analysis numerous times and just can’t seem to make the numbers work (even with the discounted price).

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An invited guest of the tenants brought a child over and that guest (and everyone else at the home for that matter) failed to supervise the child, and unfortunately the child fell in the pool and drowned.  

There are numerous dumpster companies, call several and get quotes.

Even Amazon funnels most of their customer service to e-mail and chat.Tenant was able to get a policy in place in less than a couple of hours after I sent the online invitation.