Plus, it's free to list on and I find it more intuitive than VRBO (Booking.com is the woooorst) 

@Hillary Fox Very intuitive post.

It may seem counter intuitive, but it works. 

When I first started I started to use Intuit Self Employed to keep track of all of my mileage and business expenses which may help you and your CPA.

When you make it big in real estate, you wouldn't care about this $10,000 in tuition.

All I have at this point is an engineering intuition, common sense, a desire to learn, and time...after finals May 23rd.

It's current category seems counter intuitive for someone trying to find it for the first time.

And, no income tax :)Finally, while it’s counter intuitive, owning more properties reduces risk: you can put in place sustainable processes like having a property manager, and it spreads risk of tenancy and repairs — you can ride out the cost of one of them being empty, and the furnace in all won’t need to be replaced at the same time. 

This can be counter-intuitive to a real estate investor because comps are usually used in hopes of maximizing the value for financing or sale. 

My intuitions started kicking in when he went a found a property without us knowing and supposedly put our money into a multi family unit.