Rather than try to answer your questions with numbers because answers will so dependent on your market, here are some costs that you should consider categorically that you might not be thinking of from your experience with long term rentals: - Insurance (that covers STR activity--not just any landlord policy) - Utilities (including internet and possible streaming services at minimum)- Hot tub maintenance if applicable- Replenishables (paper towles, coffee, etc)- Laundry service (maybe this is bundled with cleaning) - STR specific taxes in addition to property tax- Trash/recycle- Yard care, snow removal- Licensing cost from your city if applicableHope that helps! 

Continue searching Realtor/Zillow/working with RE agentOther thoughts:I’ve found from The Millionaire Real Estate Investor the following break down of how the author was getting leads at one point and I used that behind some of my reasoning:Networking: 32%, Agents/MLS: 28%, Driving/walking: 10%, Newspapers/ads: 9%, Foreclosure listings: 7%, For sale by owner: 4%, Internet database research: 3%, Target marketing: 2%, Other: 5%Please let me know if you have any feedback/suggestions for my specific case or any book/resource recommendations.

The thing I hear most often lately (from those who have been touring my rentals lately & who work from home), is High Speed Internet. 

@Rob Shah and people able to work remotely from anywhere with good internet speed.

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I'm willing to bet two things: 1) the fee will be towards the higher end of that range, and 2) once you pay it - you not only won't get the loan, you'll also never hear from them again.Best advice I can give you is, don't do business with strangers on the internet that you've never met and know nothing about. 

The advice you receive from an internet forum is often worth exactly what you pay for it.

When we get a stale listing, we sometimes try to sweeten the pot by advertising that we'll waive the app fee or we'll cover 2 months of cable/internet or something instead.

Our AI startup has created real jobs for Americans in 2020 and is continuing to look for skilled AI or ML Engineers. they can live almost anywhere in the US as work is remote. but most like infrastructure instead of living off-grid high-speed internet and electric vehicle charging is what they want in a rental. 

The internet, phone, TV plan came out to $30/month because I worked for Cablevision that time, which owned Optimum.