This creates a negative initial position.

Upon taking over the house again we found all our furniture ripped and broken from careless use and the side and back yard were covered with broken glass from hundreds of beer bottles being broken.

Given the short-term nature of mid-term rentals, including utilities can make your property more attractive to potential tenants, but it’s essential to factor that into your overall rent pricing.The best way to go about this is to ensure your listing is visible to your target audience.

Just digging in to this forum and learning a lot. 

Welcome to the community Bianca, I used nursing to get into real estate. 

A cost segregation study was performed on this apartment building in Knoxville, TN with a depreciable cost basis of $17,323,250.

this will lead to a lot of rationalization of bad deals, into perceived good ones. 

Quote from @Paul Lucenti: @Shawn Ackerman thanks Shawn - I'll add that into my numbers thanks for the tip.

Would anyone be willing to share some suggestions that I could use as a foundation?

What will be the indirect achievement that you want to achieve by using BP?