When I first started throwing around the idea of REI it was actually STR that caught my attention.

I would add to the good advise you have received thus far, if you do decide to purchase for cash at an auction be very careful of the purchase price..

You can possibly do it if you carefully ask yourself these questions:1) how much can I afford each month to hold a subject property?

Be careful about rushing tenant placement, you're better off with a brief vacancy and a good quality tenant than rushed with a poor quality.

It's all the numbers that don't change very often.The dashboard is missing the things I care most about.Watching the rent received number rise is the funniest part of being a landlord.A rent delinquency is high priority.

For the cold weather folk that are do it yourself types. Is there a special way you prepare your property's lawn for winter? Anything special or anything to avoid? #Minnesnowta

People who want to sell probably don't care and the other 99% of people will hate your guts either way.

Your best option is to hire a reportable lawn care company and increase the rent to cover the fee.We assign snow removal, grass cutting and keeping of the gardens within of our leases.

"One of THEIR dogs"The dogs are not mine, they are owned by a member of the landlords family and live on the property with the landlord who takes care of them.

Not a big business but still we take care of both sides properly to avoid turn over rates to increase more return to the owners by taking care of tenants quickly and rightly.