In addition, another student who lives in the house has allergies, and may or may not have medical issues with living with a dog.On the one hand, I know that a "real" service dog is going to be much better trained and behaved than a random pet, so I might be ok with it. 

Or "please let me know what I can do to help you".. randomly out of the blue.

You say your rent randomly increases?

Change the password to something random, then change the email attached to thne account and then save changes. 

(random tidbit: this is why the prosthetics department of the VA handles issuing service dogs for Vets.)

@Meryl McElwainI have 2 random questions:1.

Most people want to invest in real estate and the majority of people don't want to start a full-blown business where they have to do 24/7 management, advertising for guests, dealing with management companies 24/ doing constant and more accounting, collecting many more random payments dealing with the problems and worries that come with the dates their units are available, changing dates when guests either move their dates, forward, backwards and cancel and dealing with taking down payments, collecting the balance, giving refunds and one of the biggest problem with short term rentals is worrying about bad reviews.

We never even had so much as a clogged toilet or any indication that there was anything wrong with the sewage (lived there 11 years before that) so it really seemed random to us.

Seriously, I have a friend who gets all her flip deals from random people she meets who wanted to sell but had not called a realtor. 

But putting lipstick on a pig and paying a random person to move in to a house doesn't work as an investment.