Someday you may want to own that mansion, the nice cars and have the maid to clean the house, yard boy to mow the yard and the fancy car wash service to detail the car.  

.$216k, 3.1%, $1200/mo (Conventional Loan [refinanced from VA], no money down, 30 year Fixed Rate)BRAND NEW Roof ($19.5k insurance claim, cost me $1k), Newly fenced in back yard, Original AC Unit (Circa 2000)STR (Rented 10 months of the year while I was deployed)$27.5k Gross (~80% occupancy rates)$20.5k Net (Estimated, I don't have my tax returns handy)Monthly CAPEX (including supplies): ~$500/moSpeculative Potential: $32.5k Gross Annually (~$24.5k net)Based on the performance of my other STR, I could net an extra $4k on this home if I marketed better and adjusted my prices.

When I first got in the business in 2004, newspapers and yard signs where the main ways you advertised rentals.

We also are hiring yard people instead of having residents mow their own grass, which is done with varying degrees of diligence.

Even if they are working from home at least 1 day a week, they are working in their office the other days.People are moving out where there is more space-ie they have a yard; but fast forward a few years and you will have people moving back into cities for the same reason people who live there now like them (I don't like big cities, but know that many people do).

Generally, I use 2 door sensors, one motion and use the window decals and the yard sign.

The deals that are front house/back house detached, tend to be more expensive than a traditional duplex or triplex that are attached more like apartments.Do you have kids and want a yard, etc?

Its like sampling a NFL players 40 yard dash but for apartment underwriting.

When I found homes with For Sale signs in the yard or in the properties windows.

It took 3 forty yard and 2 thirty yard rolloff dumpsters (1 was over limit by 17.5 tons and another was over limit by 13.1 tons) to clean the inside and outside of the .42 acre lot and completely gut the inside of the house down to the studs.