Turn key I assume?

Also, you will have really high utility bills, because your guests will leave the heat at 75 degrees with the window open.You will also have to either get a management company or deal with marketing, reservations, contracts, receiving payments from guests, security deposits, housekeepers, maintenance, keys, etc yourself.

I know automation is key at a certain point in your business, but as a new Investor, there's a sense of wanting to do things manually (eg, I can build my own websites and wish to insert my own language (my brand) into email responses.

They will always WANT as much as they can get the key is to see what they will take.Easy numbers, say you think a place is worth $70K and you ask them what they want and they say $100K.

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Have just a couple items/questions (really there are sooo many, will limit to two) to sum things up: -Got my "Sacramento" key word dialed in!

In the case of an office building with an adjacent parking lot parcel, if the lot taxes are unpaid and the office building owner also owns the parking lot - then they need to have that lot for the office tenants and their clients/patients etc.

A condo can be a pretty turn-key rental.

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I saw your thread because I have "garland" set as one of my key word alerts.