I will only be able to get in touch with folks back in the States every once in a blue moon.

I manage Blue Atlas Realty which was created because of pressure from Dfw investor clients that werent happy with current PM. 

Just my messed up mind running through thousands of things on my plate.When I am just in a relax mood, I like the blues/ classic rock To Learn it's usually a class (online or in person) where I take frantic notes (that I never look at) to associate hand, mind, ears.

I went by there the other day and was thinking that water looked perfect for swimming... super blue and crystal clear.

What about in the mountains, Elijah and Blue Ridge? 

Silver blue may be cool?

Blue ridge sells mini splits for about 700-800 and then you have to hook them up.

LOL.. and those folks don't post on BP.. on BP its all blue sky rentals are the way to financial freedom quit your day job.. live the life you deserve etc etc.. well for some for sure.. for many NOPE.. they are like why did I do that.. and they exit no matter the loss.now this is more prevelant in the lower value asset markets.. not all markets are like this.But I look at when I started hard money lending in 01 for turn key and I started in Detroit.. the homes there appraised at that time for 120 to 140 each rented for what they rent for today 800 to 900 in those days the .05% rule was fine.. we loan 80k as a HML .. well those homes tanked as you probably know many went down to less than 10k in value.. thankfully the 200 plus I did there I got refinanced out of them all. but you know long term lender lost their lunch and so did most of the investors in those days.I am not prediciting another major meltdown.. but even  break even is not a good position to be in with rental properties in my humble opinion the risk/reward and hassle factor just weights on you.. but I know I am in the VAST minority in my thinking.So my thought is you really need to get these things paid for and keep them forever.. but life happens and I would say 80% of people that have that thought process going in never make it past about 7 or 8 years.

The items in blue are calculated based on the other data.I took some sorta educated guesses for things like yearly increases in taxes, rent, expenses, insurance, and appreciation.

Your safest option is to insist in the standard 12 month renewal and make sure they fully understand their legal/financial responsibilities if they break the lease.It may be standard for wealthy tenant's in A++ properties to attempt to negotiate their lease but that does not fly in my blue collar world.If they decide to leave you will be farther ahead even with the turn over costs.