Make sure you ask them good questions, make sure they carry insurance and that they are available year round. 

When the numbers were tallied, he had actually lost about $10,000–$20,000 per property.Here’s the kicker: Had he simply bought the properties for $80,000, left them vacant for seven years, and only paid taxes and insurance (about $1,500 per year per property), his all-in cost would’ve been around $90,500.

This ensures a clean transition of ownership and responsibility for insurance purposes.

Also, how does one assess whether or not one can turn a profit after paying principal/interest, insurance, and taxes each month?

In this case, your monthly payment with 20% down will have a good MARKET rate if your DTI works with a much lower month payment and no mortgage insurance(MI).

Anyone have any advise when it comes to liability/insurance if i have a pool at my airbnb? 

It's an estimated cash on cash return given current rental rates subtract expenses assuming 7% interest rate, 10% management fee, 5% repairs, 5% capex and other expenses like mortgage, insurance, tax. it's a estimate to tell you what properties to analyze vs ignoreyou can see the are pockets of negative returns as well as pockets of positive return. this is to supplement the data @Devin Conley provided

Taylor sent multiple email inquiries to our insurance provider asking what risks their policy covered.

Some numbers:Expected 2026 income after raising rents to market value and assuming 7% vacancy: $144k.Expenses: $14k property management, $18k property tax, $10k insurance, $10k utilities, $8k in repairs/maintenance/advertising/admin/etc: Total operating expenses: $60kNOI: $84kBased on 6% cap rate that brings the valuation to only $1.4m, or $1.5m based on 5.5% cap rate.

A Illegal simply starts a business entity , gets an EIN and insurances .