I don't have any extravagant dreams for stuff. 

We occasionally, get tempted by Spokane.  

She will go look at houses with me an occasionally helps with rehab work, but in general it just isn't her thing.I believe that she is skeptical for a number of reasons.

Just to give an short term rental owner point since there is a lot of fact-less, miss information, emotional and fear driven arguments going around.As a short term rental owner we abide by the current ordinances and laws (yes even parking), pay all the appropriate taxes btw yes we do pay state and local occupancy taxes just like hotels do also, we also actually pay about triple the property taxes that a normal home owner does for the “privilege of renting our own property”, we take better care of our properties than most property owners around us, clean and maintain our properties weekly, we screen the people we put in our propeties also (my felony neighbor that moved in next to me I have no control over btw).We have systems in place to monitor our propeties 24/7 like video and in fact have even had other neighbors come to us asking for our help and video coverage for unrelated issues on their property.We actually enjoy meeting the different people that stay in our properties and even had a CBS reality show filmed at one of our properties recently.As an owner the only real negative experience I have had is from the folks that think they have to right to tell me what to do with my property.Do we have an occasional guest that thinks they don’t need to follow the rules of course but we handle it just like I would think you of any guest that comes in your home.

The menu bar floats, but does not stay stuck to the top of the view window ... sometimes it's at the top, other times it's 40% of the way down the screen overlayed on other content and occasionally it's on the bottom.When the menu bar is not at the top of the screen, it is not always operational.I'll see if I can grab a better screen shot.

Yes, Merced occasionally has auctions on the courthouse steps. 

Occasionally, I'll change out the filter, if I remember, when I go there.

She does occasionally get a client that's a guest.

CO detector, 10 year battery life is required in California.Most detectors are sensitive to dust and creating emitting occasional nuisance sound even you replaced the battery.Chk on fire resistant door burning time and escape hanging ladder requirements( more than 1 story) in your area.

We found that we only rented our property from May to August, so we had an 8 month vacancy (although occasionally we would find a longer term tenant during the off months).