If you have a professional tenant, $200 isn't going to do jack when they can steal $900 in rent each month they stay there without paying.

Personally, I would never Airbnb our entire house while gone.2 big reasons for thatFirst, the people that stay in your house when they are renting your a room (and not the whole house) tend to be a LOT more respectful than people that KNOW you aren't there.

I've been trying to remove these people for a long time now. The constable served them finally and we have court on the 25th.

The lease expires in July, with so many tenant rights and the judge tends to be more on th...

You are doing great, stay the course.

Single family seems to be easy to rent out and I feel like people are more likely to stay longer in single family than apartment.

@Tony MarcelleThe best advice I can offer is to stay calm and resist the urge to smack anyone, however incompetent, annoying, selfish, and obviously stupid they are.

Still account for maitenance and vacancies as you would see on the other units of the property but the goal would be for you to move on to another one at some point and of course you can always stay there if you want.

My wife has a full time job that pays roughly $50k but I’m the stay at home dad who’s homeschooling our kids.

To be safe, and stay out of court, learn your own state codes.  

How do I stay with my anonymous to public, yet not to the bank?